John Stuart Mill said that “Language is the light of the mind”. Undoubtedly, language is essential to every aspect and interaction in our everyday lives. Not only is it a means of communicating thoughts and ideas, but it forges friendships, cultural ties, and economic relationships.  Thus, the need to learn foreign languages arises. The language policies helping to protect the native language and promote foreign language learning are enacted.

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Inspired by this trend, we found it interesting to investigate the language policy in China and Germany. We explored the topic mainly from four aspects, native language policy at home, native language policy abroad (international promotion policy), foreign language policy in education and language policy in coexisting and protecting the minority language. And the main results are presented in the following tables.

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