Twenty-eight years ago today, on May 22, 1997 (April 16, 1997 in the lunar calendar), the plan to eliminate language barriers on the Internet began to be implemented. Those who are intimidated by the dense characters on the Internet because of the language barrier will be shocked by the news: a project called UNL will achieve automatic online translation in 13 languages in 1998. By the end of this century, even if you only know your own language, you will be able to communicate online with hundreds of different languages. According to experts, the existing Internet is a network with English as the dominant language. How to ensure that people in non-English-speaking countries can easily enjoy the same services as people in English-speaking countries when using their local languages, break down the language barriers that exist in the communication between people of various countries, and transform the existing monolingual network environment into a network suitable for multiple languages and cultures has become an increasingly prominent and urgent need. In December 1995, the UN Standing Council adopted a historic proposal - the UNL project led by the United Nations University Institute for Advanced Study, which was officially launched in the second half of 1996. The full name of UNL is the Multilingual Communication Environment Project (ie UniversalNetworkingLanguage). The main goal of the project is to establish an infrastructure that can be used by countries around the world to overcome language barriers and achieve multilingual communication within ten years. The first batch of 13 languages developed by the UNL project are all major languages with more than 100 million speakers, including the 6 working languages of the United Nations including Chinese (Note 2). China is the first country visited by the UNL delegation of the United Nations University. At present, experts from the Computer and Microelectronics Development Research Center of the Ministry of Electronics Industry have participated in the research and development of this project. The specific steps are: 1. The development of 100,000 Chinese dictionaries. 2. The connection between the Chinese dictionary and the applicable dictionary (UL) in the UNL. 3. Use the UNL specification to develop Chinese analysis and generation rules, and realize the conversion between Chinese and UNL in converters and generators. The elimination of language barriers on the Internet will bring us into a global village where we can talk freely. Chinese, which has a quarter of the world's population, will be the beneficiary language of the first batch of UNL projects, which is undoubtedly a blessing. Experts say that although Chinese is an ideographic language without morphological characteristics, and semantic research is quite difficult, in the past 10 years, the Ministry of Electronics has conducted in-depth research on basic research and product development of Chinese information processing, creating conditions for the smooth development of Chinese UNL projects in our country. UNL is the Universal Network Language Project, organized and implemented by the United Nations University. Its plan is to design an intermediate language - UNL language. Each language develops a set of software called "converter" and "inversion converter". A certain language is converted into UNL language through "converter", and then into another language through "inversion converter", thus realizing the conversion between languages. The UNL project is a huge project across countries, languages, and centuries. It is expected to be completed within 10 years. The first phase of the project involves 13 countries including China, France, Japan, Italy, France, Russia, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, Brazil, Spain, and Mongolia. It will take three years to complete the conversion software of 13 languages, including the 6 working languages of the United Nations. This means that 80% of the world's population will benefit from this project. The second phase of the project, from 1999 to 2005, will complete the conversion and development of languages in 185 countries affiliated to the United Nations.