Mao Zedong once declared that "The writing system must be reformed, and we must move towards a phonetic script, as is commonly used throughout the world." He believed that simplification was the inevitable course of historical development, and his purpose was to prepare for the replacement of Chinese characters by a phonetic writing system.
毛澤東曾說：「文字要改革，要走世界文字共同的拼音方向」，他認為簡化是歷史必然的道路，目的在為漢字拼音化做準備。