Liu Bin, Chairman of the Mainland's Language Committee, asserts that the spoken and written language are symbols of national sovereignty, and there can be no going back on the policy of using simplified characters. To do so would cause "immeasurable damage to the cause of socialism."
大陸語委會主任柳斌便指出，語言文字是國家主權的標誌，推行簡體字的方向絕不能動搖，否則就會給「社會主義事業造成無可估量的損失」。