中国 · China
你好。这是我们的故事。
The law says sign-language news every day. Since 2023.
Access on this page: Signed: Chinese Sign Language — pending How this page is tested
In 2018, after seven years of work by the State Language Commission, China published a national general sign language — 5,000 signs, in use from 1 July 2018 in schools and on air. On 28 June 2023 the National People's Congress passed the Barrier-free Environment Construction Law, in force from 1 September 2023. Article 30: every publicly funded television station must carry synchronised subtitles and, where conditions allow, broadcast at least one sign-language news programme a day, widening over time. Article 29: when governments announce a disaster, an epidemic or an emergency, they should announce it in sign language too. The law is ours. The delivery is one bulletin a day, where conditions allow.
Chinese Sign Language video — this story, in our language
A named Chinese Deaf creator tells this page's story in Chinese Sign Language. The video is the page, and the text is its transcript's cousin. This video existing is the reason this page is allowed to exist.
One signed bulletin a day is the law.
Everything else is ours to build.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in Chinese Sign Language, captions, or audio description.
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I create access
Create.Get paid.Be seen.
Deaf signers, interpreters, captioners, audio describers — your work, your name, your income.
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I provide access
One API.Every screen.
Platforms, governments, cinemas, companies — deliver real access with one integration.
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I back access
Host.Sponsor.Invest.
The builders who will turn one bulletin a day into every screen — be part of the firsts.
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More than one of these can be yours. The access is for you, and you can be paid to help make it.
Access in China today
The law now says:
Publicly funded television carries synchronised subtitles, and at least one sign-language news programme a day where conditions allow — Barrier-free Environment Construction Law, Article 30, since 1 September 2023. Emergency information goes out in sign language where conditions allow — Article 29. And the state encourages captions, sign language and audio description on published films and online video.
And we know the exhausting part: 'where conditions allow' is the clause that decides whether a Deaf viewer in a small city ever sees the bulletin. A national standard sign language has existed since 2018; a national delivery does not.
The law names the bulletin. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Chinese Sign Language, captions, audio description — delivered to any screen.
In plain words
The law is on your side. What is missing is the service — and that is what gets built here, with the community.
Why captions alone are not enough → Why sign language
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