About 83.6 percent of respondents think people's abilities in the Chinese language are declining, with 45 percent of them saying they are declining "drastically," according to a survey by China Youth Daily.

As for how they came to this conclusion, 72.9 percent of respondents thought the popularization of computer weakened people's Chinese writing ability, 67 percent said the rather flexible "internet language" caused the fragmentation of Chinese, and 67.7 percent thought it was because people pay much more attention to foreign language studies than Chinese.

(China.org.cn January 10, 2012)

《中國青年報》的一項調查顯示，83.6%的受訪者認為現在人們的漢語應用水平下降，其中45.0%的人表示“下降很多”。

關于當下漢語使用中存在的問題，72.9%的人表示電腦時代導致漢字書寫能力下降；67.0%的人表示網絡語言活躍，漢語出現碎片化與不規范化；67.7%的人認為，人們不重視漢語，存在“外語熱，母語冷”現象。