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Chinese authorities have steps to protect its language from the increasing of English and other languages. The People’s Daily Online website says, “with economic and development, foreign languages are increasingly being used in all of publications in China, including in newspapers, books, e-books and on the Internet”. China’s General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) said the of English words and abbreviations in Chinese is “ the language”. Its website stated English has, " damaged the standard and of the Chinese language and disrupted the harmonious and healthy language and cultural environment, causing social impacts".

Officials from GAPP issued guidelines on how all Chinese publishers must now , saying: “It is banned to mix at will foreign language such as English words or abbreviations with Chinese publications, words of vague meaning that are not Chinese.” This means abbreviations and acronyms that are currently used in Chinese publications, such as WTO, GDP and even IBM, must now be with their Chinese equivalents. One at a Beijing publishing house said the translations would be -consuming and confusing. He said: “I wonder how many people understand 'guoji shangye jiqi gongsi,’ when IBM is recognizable.”