With the approval of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Council_of_the_People’s_Republic_of_China" id="mw1Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="State Council of the People’s Republic of China">State Council</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" id="mw1g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="China">China</a>’s two largest newspapers, the <i id="mw1w"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People’s_Daily" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People’s Daily">People’s Daily</a></i> and the <i id="mw2Q"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangming_Daily" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Guangming Daily">Guangming Daily</a></i>, publish in full for the first time the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_round_of_simplified_Chinese_characters" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second round of simplified Chinese characters">Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme</a>.<sup about="#mwt98" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_20#cite_note-17" id="mw3A" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw3Q">[17]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"><cite about="#mwt95" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFZhaoBaldauf2008">Zhao, Shouhui; Baldauf, Richard B. Jr. (2008). <i id="mwBsE">Planning Chinese Characters: Reaction, Evolution or Revolution?</i>. Dordrecht: <a href="./Springer_Publishing" id="mwBsI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Springer Publishing">Springer Publishing</a>. p.<span id="mwBsM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>62. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBsQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBsU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780387485768" id="mwBsY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780387485768"><bdi id="mwBsc">9780387485768</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt95" class="Z3988" id="mwBsg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Planning+Chinese+Characters%3A+Reaction%2C+Evolution+or+Revolution%3F&amp;rft.place=Dordrecht&amp;rft.pages=62&amp;rft.pub=Springer+Publishing&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=9780387485768&amp;rft.aulast=Zhao&amp;rft.aufirst=Shouhui&amp;rft.au=Baldauf%2C+Richard+B.+Jr.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+20"></span></span>