In 2013, China proposed "The Belt and Road” (Sun et al., 2013). “As the coastal Fujian Province is the starting point of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road” (Chen & Fan, 2015), Hokkin's importance has changed as a result. In the same year, the Education Bureau of Fujian Province issued announcements such as “Building the Chinese Language Resources Conservation Project (Fujian Dialect)” to protect Fujian dialects such as Hokkien in various ways (Fujian Provincial Department of Education, 2017). The official announcement of the Fujian Provincial Education Bureau on the protection of the Hokkien potentially demonstrates that the "political utility" of the Hokkien is shifting to "economic utility" under the influence of national economic policies.In general, this paper will analyze the existing literature on language policy from three perspectives. First, from an individual perspective, the use of the Hokkien has a reinforcing effect on the shaping of personal identity and culture. Second, at the societal level, top-down government policies and citizen discussions and practices on language policy have increasingly highlighted the importance of dialects in society.  Finally, the third section will look at the implications of Hokkien preservation in the context of globalization.

Xinyao Huang. Minnan Dialect and Policy Research: the Transfer of Dialect “Traditional Identity”. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 10: 94-99. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.051017.

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