This brings us to the next point of who conducts planning, how they go about doing so, and for whom planning is conducted.

There is no status planning on the part of the state for Hokkien and Teochew; the Clan Associations are the ones who conduct any form of language planning for the dialects.

For the Hokkien Huay Kuan, corpus planning is accomplished implicitly through classes. These are conducted for anyone with an interest in learning the Hokkien dialect, regardless of ethnic background. The other dialect Huay Kuans, on the other hand, do not conduct such classes (with the exception of Hainanese).

With regard to Mandarin, planning is done by the state and its umbrella organizations such as the Ministry of Education (through its education policy) and the Ministry of Information and the Arts (through the SMC). The SMC is run by the Promote Mandarin Council, a committee consisting of members from both the public and private sector. Generally speaking, these authorities plan Mandarin for school children and the Chinese population in Singapore respectively. A related point of interest is that the recent SMC advertisements depict non-Chinese Singaporeans advocating the merits of Mandarin, for example, 'Huo Dao Lao, Xue Dao Lao' (Learning is a life-long process).

Trivia: the Hokkien Huay Kuan even provides Malay lessons!