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July 21, 2004

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The word buzzword has become such a buzzword itself as to render itself almost meaningless. Nevertheless it can prove useful on occasion. The People's Daily has a list of the Top 10 buzzwords culled from a survey of 13 major Chinese papers from the first half of this year. I'm going to reproduce the list in full:

Top Ten Buzzwords of Comprehensive Type: China's market economy status, concept of scientific development, peaceful rise, European Championship, maltreatment of captives, highly pathogenic bird flu, interpretation of law, substandard milk powder, power shortage and auditing storm.

Top Ten Buzzwords of International Type: 60th anniversary of the Normandy Landing, interim governing council, Hamas, Athens Olympic Torch, hostage incident, Tashkent Summit, separation wall, nuclear freeze, transferring of Iraqi sovereignty, attack warning.

Top Ten Buzzwords of Economic Type: auto show, zero tariff, power control, two-color ball, auto recall, negative interest rate age, underground insurance, non-performing loan ratio, legislation on direct sales, lottery legislation.

Top Ten Buzzwords of Scientific and Technological Type; Mars exploration, Transit of Venus, Spirit, dual-mode cell phone, intelligent cell phone, Chang'e Project, genetically modified food, meteorological monitoring and warning, sasser virus and innocuous disposition.

Top Ten Buzzwords of Cultural Type: China-France Culture Year, red classic, "Three Education", Shi mian mai fu (Ambush on All Sides), synthetic beauty, Twelve Girls Band, Porch of the Three Kingdoms, film classification system, media responsibility and film legend.

Top Ten Buzzwords of Current Affairs (Domestic): issues concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers, Xibaipo Spirits, passenger accident insurance, BMW lottery case, 2nd identification card, deficiency of honesty, Taiwan referendum, clean government commitment and flight delay compensation.

You could spend hours analysing each of these categories. It serves as a useful barometer of what has been important to China's media this year and a summary of basically every major issue in the country to date.

 posted by Simon on 07.21.04 at 10:51 AM in the




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Comments:

Are all of these really buzzwords, though? Like . . . Sorry. Comment interupted by cuddle request from girl child, to be resumed later.

 posted by: Random Penseur on 07.21.04 at 08:20 PM [permalink]

Sorry about the interruption (well, no, not really, it was an excellent cuddle). So, like I was saying, this seems less like a collection of buzzwords and more a collection of topics by which you can measure the Chinese leadership's foci at the moment. I think it's very cool.

All the way around, by the way, I really enjoy your blog, Simon.

 posted by: RP on 07.22.04 at 01:18 AM [permalink]




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