 There was a proposal in China by 1957 to adapt the Cyrillic alphabet to Sibe, but this was abandoned in favor of the original Sibe script.In 1998, there were eight primary schools that taught Sibe in the Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County where the medium of instruction was Chinese, but Sibe lessons were mandatory.From 1954 to 1959, the People's Publishing House in Ürümqi published over 285 significant works, including government documents, "belles-lettres", and schoolbooks, in Sibe.