Kids' Videos and the "No Dialect" Government Policy

If you're from my era, you might remember learning this song at school:

国家要进步
语言要沟通
就从今天起大家说华语

不分男和女
不分老和少
不再用方言大家说华语

听一听记一记
开口说几句
多亲切多便利
简单又容易

I bought a couple of VCDs from Popular Book Store for the girls to brush up on their Mandarin and this was the theme song!

As is common with most things we were forced to learn at school, the tune and lyrics came to me quickly, though it's been more than 20 years since secondary school.