The top ten catchphrases on mainstream newspapers in the first half of this year were released on July 18 at Beijing Language and Culture University, among them are "harmonious society", "Thousand-hand Bodhisattva" and "Lien-Soong's mainland visits".

The hot words are jointly released by the National Monitoring and Research Center of Language Resources, Beijing Language and Culture University, China Association of Press Technicians and Chinese Information Processing Society of China.

These words are selected under computer aid from articles of 15 mainstream newspapers from January 1 to June 30-- a corpus containing 190 million Chinese characters. They fall into categories as comprehensive news, international events, domestic events, economy, education, science and technology, culture, United Nations and security.

Each category contains the hot words as follows:

Comprehensive news: harmonious society, food security, keeping the advanced nature of Party members, Thousand-hand Bodhisattva, Lien-Soong's mainland visits, etc.

International events: 60th anniversary of the victory of world anti-Fascist war, World Economic Forum, tsunami early-warning etc.

Domestic events: workplace safety, ice-breaking tour, etc.

Economy: RMB revaluation, crude oil price, economic census etc.

Education: equal education opportunity, College English Test reform.

Science and technology: South Pole Scientific Expedition, stem cell etc.

Culture: Figures Who Moved China Deeply, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty.

United Nations special report: the 60th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter, UN Security Council expansion etc.

Security: Sudan I, man-made milk etc.

By People's Daily Online