The presently simplified characters created by the Chinese Communists are widely used throughout the world. Many foreign students feel that the simplified characters are an important step in China's modernization, and that traditional characters are too troublesome to write.
中共創造的「簡體字」，目前在世界各地使用的相當普遍，許多外國學生認為，簡體字是「中國現代化很重要的一步」，何況繁體字「寫起來太麻煩」了。