Radio Television Hong Kong's Mandarin radio station Putonghua Channel, which was set up only on the eve of the 1997 handover, is attracting growing numbers of listeners, and according to a survey the station made this spring, more people now listen to Mandarin radio than English, putting Mandarin in second place behind Cantonese.
回歸前夕才成立的香港電台普通話台，收聽的人數越來越多，根據電台今年春天的調查顯示，普通話的收聽率超過英語，成為次於廣東話的第二收聽語種。