Largest Chinese dictionary to be revised
《汉语大词典》启动“大修”工程 

All 25 volumes of a revised edition of the most inclusive Chinese dictionary, the Hanyu Da Cidian, will be published by 2020, according to an announcement on Monday. The first volume of the second edition will be unveiled in 2015.
《汉语大词典》(第二版)编纂出版启动大会10日在北京人民大会堂举行。记者获悉，作为迄今为止最大规模的汉语工具书，《汉语大词典》将启动“大修”工程，并于2015年出版第二版第一册，预计2020年完成全书25册、约6000万字的编纂出版工作。

 Over 30 percent of the current first edition will be altered, including revisions to more than 10,000 entries, and the addition of 100,000 to 120,000 entries, it was revealed at ceremony to mark the project.
《汉语大词典》（第二版）修订量超过三成，其中修订释义1万余条、新增词条10万至12万条。

Containing over 50 million Chinese characters, 375,000 entries and more than 2,200 illustrations, the first edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian was published in 1986.
始编于1975年的《汉语大词典》共收词目37.5万条，计5000余万字，插图2200余幅；全书共12卷，另有索引1卷。第一卷1986年出版。

The National Publication Funds decided in March this year to channel 27 million yuan (4.32 mln U.S. dollars) in financial aid to the dictionary's publisher, Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House. 
今年3月，国家出版基金决定专项资助出版方上海世纪出版股份有限公司上海辞书出版社完成编纂工作，资助总额为2700万元，并下拨首批资助经费。