With the many religions you would of thought that there would be lots of languages spoken in Beijing, but you are wrong, the Beijing people only understand Mandarin. In other parts if China Cantonese is spoken, but in Beijing they do not understand Cantonese. With the only spoken language being Mandarin migrants need to learn how to speak and understand Mandarin, In 2011 there were 825,800 migrants in Beijing, but because they had to learn the language people started to leave, in 2012 there were 784,200 migrants in the city.
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