Buzzwords in mainstream newspapers in the first half released

Top Ten Buzzwords of the mainstream newspapers in the first half of 2004 are released today. The Applied Linguistics Research Institute, Beijing Language and Culture University selected160 million corpora from 13 mainstream newspapers such as the People's Daily, Guangming Daily, China Youth Daily etc. during Jan. 1 and Jun. 25. Six types of buzzwords are gained by way of computer-aided collection and dynamic processing analysis.

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.

"Newspaper buzzwords follow-up study" is one of the "Tenth-Five" projects of the country's language commission, and is in the charge of the Applied Linguistics Research Institute, Beijing Language and Culture University.

By People's Daily Online