Language situation in China, due to its multiethnic and multicultural population is of certain interest to sociolinguists. Nevertheless, the problems including the functioning of the Chinese language, which plays the role of a unifying language in the country; minority languages and other key issues of language and society in China have become objects of a balanced language policy relatively recently, due to the fact that the Chinese Sociolinguistics is a young science, which emerged in China during the implementation of the policy of reforms and opening up in the PRC proclaimed in 1978.Over the past forty years, Sociolinguistics in China has gone through the stages of emergence, formation and development, which are described in this article. In addition, the active involvement of sociolinguists in the modern language policy of the country allows researchers to determine the period from the beginning of the XXI century as a stage of sustainable development of Sociolinguistics. Besides, the widespread implementation of sociolinguistic research methods within the principles of language policy and language construction of the country also allows us to judge the prospects for the further development of sociolinguistics in China.
社会语言学家对中国由于其多民族和多元文化的人口所处的语言环境具有一定的兴趣。但是，问题包括汉语的功能，汉语在该国发挥着统一语言的作用；由于中国社会语言学是一门年轻的科学，它是在改革开放政策实施期间出现在中国的事实，相对而言，少数民族语言和中国语言与社会的其他关键问题在最近成为了一种平衡的语言政策的对象。 1978年在中国宣布成立。在过去的40年中，中国的社会语言学经历了出现，形成和发展的阶段，本文对此进行了介绍。此外，社会语言学家积极参与该国的现代语言政策，使研究人员能够确定从二十一世纪初开始的时期，作为社会语言学可持续发展的阶段。此外，在国家语言政策和语言建设原则范围内，社会语言学研究方法的广泛实施也使我们能够判断中国社会语言学的进一步发展前景。