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)

《中国青年报》的一项调查显示，83.6%的受访者认为现在人们的汉语应用水平下降，其中45.0%的人表示“下降很多”。

关于当下汉语使用中存在的问题，72.9%的人表示电脑时代导致汉字书写能力下降；67.0%的人表示网络语言活跃，汉语出现碎片化与不规范化；67.7%的人认为，人们不重视汉语，存在“外语热，母语冷”现象。