China's Language Life Announces Use of High-frequency Words to Record Social Life

On May 29, according to the Ministry of Education website, the Ministry of Education and the National Language Committee today released the report on the state of language life in China in 2011. This is the seventh time that the Ministry of Education and the National Language Commission released the report on the status of language life in the society. The report pointed out that in terms of the use of words in the media, characters and words that have a high frequency of change in the use of high-frequency Chinese characters reflect the characteristics of the characters used in the year and record the annual social life.

The report pointed out that the public has paid a lot of attention to language life. "Chinese inventory 2011", Chinese language proficiency test, name change, and the use of Taobao are widely concerned by the society.

The language and writing issues in the process of foreignization and marketization have also received attention. The “Translation Standards for Foreign Languages ​​in the Public Service Sector” will establish a unified national standard to regulate the use of foreign languages ​​in the field of public services in China; the country’s foreign language capabilities will receive attention; and the scale of the language service industry will increase year by year.

The report mentioned that in 2011, 594 new words were extracted from the National Language Resources Monitoring Corpus, and the new words were compiled and published.

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