In 1982, the Uygur and Kazakh groups reverted to their original language using Arabic characters. The Yi group dropped their newly created written language in favor of the standard Yi language. After the reforms in the ethnic minorities' written language, the new written language were more simplified. The ethnic minorities who now had a written language began bilingual education from primary schools to higher education. Ethnic minorities that didn't have a written language began using Chinese or other ethnic minorities' written language to teach.
Many ethnic minorities have newspapers and magazines written in their own language.
In 1998, seventeen ethnic minorities published 83 newspapers and 184 magazines. China's ethnic minorities have not escaped the changes brought on by the Information era. Eleven ethnic minority languages including Mongolian, Tibetan and Uygur have developed a standard keyboard, word processing system and language database. Towards the end of 1996, Tibetan standards in characters and keyboards became the first ethic minority written language to become a national standard. Some ethnic minority written language encoding standards have received state and international recognition, the first step in developing software programs for ethnic minorities' written language.