twenty-one members of the chinese people's political consultative conference (cppcc) delivered a proposal to add traditional chinese characters to the primary school curriculum. the proposal was rejected by the minister of education, who explained, 'our nation has its fundamental governing principles. [one of them, by law, is] to promote the usage of simplified chinese and mandarin. this is the basic condition… thus, we will not consider re-introducing traditional chinese education in our primary school curricula.'