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1、Could fear of losing touch with Chinese mean a backlash for English in China?AmericanDreamsinChinaThe thirst to learn English has spawned companies such as U.S.-listed New Oriental Education&Technology Group,which inspired the hit movie American Dreams in China.Xinhua puts the value of Chinas En

2、glish-learning industry at about 30 billion yuan($5 billion).Starting 2016,the Beijing government is planning to reduce the weighting of English in college and senior high school entrance exams,according to a report from Xinhua.English,Chinese and math currently have the same weighting.Public consul

3、tation on the proposal started Monday,said the report.The move comes amid a surge in interest in Chinese as the CCTV show Chinese Characters Dictation Competition has taken the country by storm since it started in August.As part of its stated mission,the show says it is hoping to reinvigorate intere

4、st in Chinese,in part because it sees writing skills deteriorating as young people increasingly communicate by smartphones with Western keyboards.Xinhua was careful,however,not to trivialize the importance of English,which it said is important as China opens wider to the outside world.It says that the new measures will simply shift the way English is taught,from a narrow focus on achieving high scores in tests to help students apply what they learn in real life.But any government-led attempts to play down the importance of English may not make much of an impact in China.THINKYOU