How did Singapore come to be? Why use Simplified Chinese

Singapore: The first batch of 502 simplified characters was published in 1969. Except for 67 characters (called "variant simplified characters"), they are all the same as the simplified characters published by China. In 1974, the "General List of Simplified Chinese Characters" was published, which included 2,248 simplified characters, including all simplified characters published by China, as well as 10 characters that China has not yet simplified, such as "yao" and "window". In May 1976, a revised version of the "General List of Simplified Chinese Characters" was promulgated, deleting these 10 simplified characters and variant simplified characters, thus completely consistent with China's "General List of Simplified Chinese Characters". National laws stipulate that standard Chinese characters adopt Chinese national standards.

Most of the people in Singapore are Chinese. English is the official language. Most Chinese use Simplified Chinese. Traditional Chinese characters are also very common. In the Greater China area, Traditional Chinese characters are still used in Hong Kong and Taiwan. , Mainland China has switched to simplified Chinese characters with fewer strokes after 1949 in order to improve the domestic literacy rate.

Singapore, Malaysia and other places mainly consider the increasing importance of the mainland in the world, so they adopt simplified Chinese. The so-called general trend, traced to the root cause is to consider China's future strength