The development, maintenance, or decline of languages has never been a purely linguistic matter, but rather the result of complex social, political, and economic forces playing against each other. At present, the academic circles mainly discuss the protection of dialects from the perspectives of sociology, politics and economics, but there are few researches on the legal protection of dialects, especially the protection of administrative law. 
it is of great theoretical and practical value to establish and perfect the administrative law mechanism of dialect protection in China, to coordinate the conflict between Putonghua and dialect, and to seek balanced protection between the universality, standardization and diversity of language.
How to protect dialect through administrative legislation