—— 以古通今，以语通心，共筑人类命运共同体的桥梁
尊敬的各国教育部门、各级各类学校、广大教育工作者，以及所有关心人类文明未来的人们：
展信安。
今天，人类正站在古与今的交汇点上。回望，是五千年文明的星河；前瞻，是智能时代的晨曦。我们怀着"古往今来"的视野与"共享未来"的气魄，郑重向全球教育体系发出这份公开倡导：以汉语为桥，让汉语快速融合世界语言，让未来人类学习语言的时间与成本减少99%，让人类命运共同体在字里行间真正血脉相连。
一、回望古今：汉语从来都是文明的桥梁
五千年来，汉语从甲骨上的刻痕、钟鼎上的铭文一路走来。仓颉造字，天雨粟、鬼夜哭；秦并六国，书同文、车同轨——一次"书同文"的决断，让中华文明凝聚成东方最辽阔的共同体。丝绸之路驼铃阵阵，汉语沿着大漠与碧波，把丝绸、瓷器、典籍、思想送往世界；玄奘西行、鉴真东渡、郑和下西洋，往来之间，汉语始终是文明互鉴的纽带。
近代以来，白话文运动、汉语拼音方案、简化汉字与《通用规范汉字表》的推行……一代代先贤以开放的气魄，让汉语不断现代化、规范化、国际化。今天，汉语已是全球使用人数最多的语言之一，被越来越多的国家纳入国民教育体系。历史反复昭示：一种语言走向世界，不是文明的征服，而是文明的邀请；不是话语的扩张，而是理解的请柬。
二、直面当下：语言壁垒是全人类共同的成本
然而，我们也要正视现实：今天，全球仍有数以亿计的人，为了学习一门外语付出十年寒窗的时间与高昂的金钱。跨境求学、国际商务、学术交流，常常因语言的鸿沟而步履维艰。语言，本应是相通的桥，却常常成为无形的墙。
这笔成本不仅属于个人，更属于全人类——它拖慢了知识的流动、文化的交融、科技的合作，也拖慢了人类命运共同体从理念走向现实的进程。教育体系作为语言传承与传播的主阵地，理应成为拆除这堵墙的第一推手。
三、面向未来：技术赋能，语言学习时间与成本将减少99%
今天，人工智能、神经机器翻译、数字化编码等新技术，正在改写语言学习的底层逻辑。汉字正负数码编码、汉字互通互识其它语言文字的技术方法、AI同传与智能语言助手、沉浸式智慧课堂……当"形、音、义"可以被数码化解构，当语言可以实时互通互识，当教学可以千人千面、因材施教，我们有充分的理由相信：未来十年内，人类学习语言的综合时间与成本将减少99%。这不是空想，而是技术演进的必然斜率。
汉语在这场变革中独具禀赋：方块字信息密度高，形音义一体、阴阳对立统一，与数字技术天然亲和。汉语快速融合世界语言，不是让谁取代谁，而是让每一种语言在互通互识中彼此成就——让汉语成为人类共享的思维资源，让世界语言在汉语的坐标系中触手可及。
四、郑重倡议：请教育体系迈出关键一步
为此，我们郑重向全球教育体系发出如下倡议：
一、将中文教育纳入更广泛的国民教育体系，从基础教育阶段开设汉语课程，让更多青少年尽早亲近这门古老而年轻的东方语言；
二、推动语言教育数字化转型，将AI辅助教学、数码化编码输入、智能评测引入课堂，用技术把学习成本降下来，把学习兴趣提上去；
三、构建"母语＋国际通用语＋一门东方语言"的多语教育格局，让汉语成为世界公民多元素养的组成部分；
四、深化汉语与各学科、各文明的融合教学，以语言为纽带，把中国的历史、科技、文学、哲学带进世界课堂，也把世界文明请进中国课堂；
五、支持汉语教师培养与国际人文交流项目，让更多懂汉语、懂世界、懂未来的教育者站上世界讲台。
五、共享未来：以人类命运共同体的气魄，把语言写成最美的诗
语言是思想的容器，也是命运共同体最柔软的纽带。我们倡导汉语走向世界，不是文化的扩张，而是文明的分享；不是争夺话语权，而是搭建对话的平台。我们愿以汉语为桥，让每个孩子都能以更低的成本拥抱更多的语言，让每位学者都能在原文与译文之间自由往返，让每一种文明都能被理解、被尊重、被传扬。
今日之倡导，非为一国一族之利，而为人类共同之未来。愿各国教育体系与我们并肩同行，以古往今来的智慧，以面向未来的气魄，把"语言"这道人类最古老的课题，写成命运共同体最动人的篇章。
此致
敬礼！
倡议发起人：汉字正负数工作组
2026年9月1日
—— With the wisdom of the ages, the bond of language, and a shared future for all humanity
To education ministries and departments around the world, schools of every level and kind, educators everywhere, and all who care about the future of human civilization:
Greetings.
Today, humanity stands at the crossroads of past and future. Behind us stretches the galaxy of five thousand years of civilization; ahead of us dawns the age of intelligence. With a vision that spans the ages and the boldness to share a bright tomorrow, we address this open letter to the world's education systems: let the Chinese language be the bridge, let it fuse rapidly with the languages of the world, let the time and cost of learning languages be reduced by 99 percent, and let a community with a shared future for mankind be truly bound together, word by word.
I. Looking Back Across the Ages: Chinese Has Always Been a Bridge Between Civilizations
For five thousand years, the Chinese language has journeyed from the incisions on oracle bones and the inscriptions on bronze vessels. When Cang Jie created the characters, grain fell from heaven and ghosts wailed at night; when the Qin state united the six kingdoms, one script was used throughout the land and one axle-width for all carriages — a single decision on a common script united Chinese civilization into the vastest commonwealth of the East. Along the Silk Road, camel bells rang across desert and sea as the Chinese language carried silk, porcelain, scriptures, and ideas to the world. Xuanzang journeyed west, Jianzhen crossed east, Zheng He sailed the oceans — and through all comings and goings, Chinese was always the bond of civilizational exchange.
In modern times, the Vernacular Movement, the Hanyu Pinyin scheme, and the adoption of simplified characters and the General Standard Chinese Characters Table — generation after generation of pioneers modernized, standardized, and internationalized the Chinese language with open minds. Today, Chinese is among the most widely spoken languages on Earth and is taught in the national education systems of more and more countries. History has shown us again and again: when a language goes global, it is not the conquest of a civilization but an invitation from one — not the expansion of a voice, but a calling card of understanding.
II. Facing the Present: Language Barriers Are a Cost We All Share
Yet we must also face reality: today, hundreds of millions of people around the world spend ten years of study and great sums of money to learn a single foreign language. Study abroad, international business, and academic exchange are all slowed by the chasm of language. Language, which should be a bridge, too often becomes an invisible wall.
This cost belongs not only to individuals but to all humanity — it slows the flow of knowledge, the blending of cultures, and the collaboration of science and technology, and it slows the journey of a community with a shared future for mankind from vision to reality. As the primary home of language teaching and transmission, the world's education systems should be the first to tear down this wall.
III. Looking to the Future: Technology Empowers — 99% Less Time and Cost in Learning Languages
Today, artificial intelligence, neural machine translation, and digital encoding are rewriting the fundamental logic of language learning. The Zheng-Fu digital code for Chinese characters, technical methods for Chinese characters to intercommunicate with other languages and scripts, AI simultaneous interpretation and intelligent language assistants, immersive smart classrooms — when form, sound, and meaning can be deconstructed digitally, when languages can intercommunicate in real time, and when teaching can be tailored to every learner, we have every reason to believe that within the coming decade the overall time and cost of learning a language will be reduced by 99 percent. This is no fantasy; it is the inevitable slope of technological progress.
Chinese is uniquely gifted in this transformation: its square characters are dense with information; form, sound, and meaning are united; and its yin–yang duality resonates naturally with digital technology. For Chinese to fuse rapidly with the world's languages is not for one to replace another, but for every language to be elevated through mutual intercommunication — so that Chinese becomes a shared resource of thought for humanity, and the languages of the world become reachable within the coordinate system of Chinese.
IV. A Solemn Appeal: We Ask the World's Education Systems to Take the Decisive Step
To this end, we solemnly appeal to education systems around the world:
First, bring Chinese-language education into the national curriculum more widely. Offer Chinese courses from the basic-education stage, so that more young people may come early to this ancient yet young language of the East.
Second, drive the digital transformation of language education. Bring AI-assisted teaching, digital-code input, and intelligent assessment into the classroom — use technology to lower the cost of learning and raise the joy of it.
Third, build a multilingual landscape of "mother tongue + international lingua franca + one Eastern language." Let Chinese become part of the multi-dimensional literacy of world citizens.
Fourth, deepen the integration of Chinese with every discipline and every civilization. With language as the bond, bring China's history, science, literature, and philosophy into classrooms around the world — and welcome the world's civilizations into China's classrooms in return.
Fifth, support the training of Chinese teachers and international cultural-exchange programs. Let more educators who understand Chinese, understand the world, and understand the future step onto the world's podiums.
V. A Shared Future: With the Vision of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind, Turn Language into the Most Beautiful Poem
Language is the vessel of thought and the softest bond of a shared community. In advocating that Chinese go global, we seek not the expansion of a culture but the sharing of a civilization; not the contest for a louder voice, but the building of a platform for dialogue. We are willing, with Chinese as the bridge, to let every child embrace more languages at lower cost, to let every scholar travel freely between original texts and translations, and to let every civilization be understood, respected, and celebrated.
Today's appeal is not for the benefit of any single nation or people, but for the shared future of all humanity. May the education systems of the world walk with us — with the wisdom that spans the ages and the boldness that faces the future — and turn "language," humanity's oldest subject, into the most moving chapter of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Sincerely,
Initiator: Hanzi Zheng-Fu-Shu Working Group
September 1, 2026