'Eleventh Five-Year Plan' ... and other popular catch-phrases
The English translations of the top 10 phrases used in Chinese newspapers in 2005 are:
- Education to maintain the advanced nature of Party members
- Eleventh Five-Year Plan
- Shenzhou VI
- Conservation-conscious society
- Peaceful development
- Basket of currencies
- Oil price hike
- One World One Dream
- Lien Chan and James Soong's mainland visits
- Abolishing of agricultural tax
We figured something about a tsunami would be in there somewhere. And no "harmonious society"?
These were the results for the "general" category. There were other lists for more topic specific popular phrases. About the lists:
The selection of Ten Catchwords was the results of tracking studies of 15 newspapers such as People's Daily in 2005, covering about 500 million characters in the 15 newspapers published from Jan.1 to Dec.31, 2005.The 15 newspapers selected based on factors such as circulation, media value, readership, distribution location, distribution cycle and coverage etc. are (in alphabetical order of Chinese spelling): Beijing Youth Daily, Beijing Daily, Beijing Evening News, Legal Daily, Guangming Daily, Guangzhou Daily, Huaxi Metropolitan News, Global Times, Tianjin Evening News, Southern Weekend, People's Daily, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, Yangcheng Evening News, Yangtse Evening Post and China Youth Daily.
Photo of James Soong and Lien Chan from Taipei Times.
