The Putonghua Festival 2004 has attracted more than 100,000 participants since its launch in September.
The festival, which ran for 12 weeks with 16 school and community-based activities, had its closing and award presentation ceremony today.
The Standing Committee on Language Education & Research's chairman Michael Tien said the festival was established as a flagship event in the promotion of the use and learning of Putonghua in schools and the community.
"In the years to come, SCOLAR will further explore ways to promote the use and learning of Putonghua among our working population, by, say, riding on our success story of the Workplace English Campaign," Mr Tien said.
"This will be one of SCOLAR's major tasks in 2005. We anticipate active support from the society," he added.
Funded by the Language Fund, the festival has been held annually since 2002 to raise people's awareness of the importance of Putonghua and to provide them with more opportunities to learn and use the language.
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