In December, when two hosts on the Shanghai radio station Moving 101 were chatting in Shanghainese between songs, a listener wrote in to express disgust that they weren't speaking standard Mandarin.

去年十二月，当两位上海电台动感101节目主持人在播放歌曲的间隙用上海话聊天，一位听众发短信抱怨他们不说普通话。

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About 10% of the songs will be in Mandarin or Cantonese.

大约百分之十的歌曲会是由普通话或广东话演唱。

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There are numerous troupes of lion dancers all jostling for position to the sound of deafening firecrackers and cheesy Mandarin pop songs.

许多舞狮表演队和着震耳欲聋的鞭炮声与并不正宗的国语流行歌曲，你来我往，你争我夺。

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But one novel strategy has been adopted by rival SM Entertainment, which is trying to make inroads into the Chinese market with Exo -- a boy band that performs their songs in Mandarin as well as Korean.

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