Mandarin, that is, standard Chinese. Putonghua is the common language for communication among all ethnic groups in China, with Beijing accent as the basic pronunciation, northern dialect as the basic dialect and typical modern vernacular as the grammatical norm. "It is mainly used in the area north of the Yangtze River in Chinese mainland, and Putonghua is generally not spoken in the south of the Yangtze River, because there are Chinese dialects everywhere, and it does not depend on Putonghua". Among them, Cantonese is spoken in Hongkong, China and Macau, China, and Mandarin is also used in official occasions in Taiwan Province Province, China, but the accent is slightly different from that in Chinese mainland.

Putonghua English "Putonghua" comes from Portuguese. Today, Mandarin is the official language of China after the founding of New China, and it is also one of the six official working languages of the United Nations. Article 19 of the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that "the State promotes the use of Putonghua". People's Republic of China (PRC) National Language Law established the legal status of Putonghua as the "national language".