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2030 Bilingual Nation
Policy in the Republic of China (Taiwan) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2030 Bilingual Nation (Traditional Chinese: 2030雙語國家; pinyin: 2030 Shuāngyǔ Guójiā; Wade–Giles: 2030 Shuang1-yü3 Kuo2-chia1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: 2030 Siang-gí Kok-ka; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: 2030 Sûng-ngî Koet-kâ) is a policy in the Republic of China (Taiwan) promulgated by the Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te presidential administrations. Its goal is to make English and another language (no official confirmation yet) the primary languages in Taiwanese society by 2030. In 2014, the then-mayor of Tainan city Lai Ching-te launched a ten-year plan entitled "English as the second official language" (英語為第二官方語言) to transform Tainan into a bilingual city by 2024. Lai Ching-te further promoted the national bilingual policy after taking over as premier of the Executive Yuan in 2017, as vice president of Tsai Ing-wen in 2020, and finally as president in 2024. Tsai Ing-wen repeatedly mentioned the goal of being a bilingual country by 2030 in her presidential inaugural address. Currently, a budget of more than NT$10 billion has been allocated to implement this policy.[1]
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