The Ministry of Education, in the name of the expert working group for compiling the Chinese Characters List of General Specification, issued the Answers to the Questions of the Chinese Characters List of General Specification in official website, indicating that the Chinese Characters List of General Specification has fine-tuned the font of the Song Dynasty, mainly to achieve the consistency of the strokes of the Song Dynasty, and announced four adjustment principles.

These four principles include respecting the structure of Chinese characters, giving consideration to the style of Song style, following unified rules and strictly controlling special cases. Through the adjustment and beautification of fonts, the consistency of Song style has been further achieved, making fonts more regular and systematic.

Liu Zhiji, professor of East China Normal University, doctoral supervisor and deputy director of China Character Research and Application Center of East China Normal University, the key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, attended the consultation. He said: "This revision has been widely consulted and has certain representativeness." He said that the standardization of language and writing is the general trend, and this change conforms to the inherent rationality of writing.