Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Simplified Chinese Characters are one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary Chinese written language. The government of the People''s Republic of China has promoted them for use in printing in an attempt to increase literacy. They are officially used in the People''s Republic of China, Singapore, and the United Nations. Traditional Chinese is currently used in the Republic of China or Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Overseas Chinese communities generally use traditional characters, but simplified characters are often used among mainland Chinese immigrants. However, the majority of the Chinese-speaking world uses simplified characters.