After the Chinese Communists established a "proletarian state" in 1949, they faced the challenge of indoctrinating hundreds of millions of illiterate workers, peasants and soldiers in short order. To this end, in 1956 the government launched a campaign to introduce simplified characters.
1949 年，以無產階級「工農兵」起家的中共取得政權後，為了讓數以億計的文盲能夠儘快識字以接受政令教條，因此從 1956 年開始了文字簡化運動。