At the end of 1980, the government finally realized the inappropriateness of earlier policies "to teach Confucianism In English" and "promote the spoken Chinese and suppress the written." It realized that language is not just a set of symbols but rather an inseparable part of one's culture. At this point, the value of Chinese began to be recognized once again.
而在一九八○年代末期，領導階層終於意識到早年「拿著英語教儒家」、「提高華語，打壓華文」的政策失常，體認語言不可能只是一套中性的符號，而是與文化密不可分，又重新肯定華文的價值。