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Controversy Surrounds Chinese Communist Party’s Selection of “Zhen” as 2023 Representative Character

On December 20, 2023, the Chinese Communist Party announced that the 2023 domestic representative character selected by netizens through official media was “Zhen”, which was criticized by netizens. (Network screenshot)

[The Epoch Times, December 20, 2023]The Communist Party of China announced today (December 20) that netizens selected the domestic representative word for 2023 through official media as “Zhen”, which was scolded by netizens: “sluggish” and “unable to recover.” .

The “Chinese Language Inventory 2023” unveiling ceremony jointly sponsored by the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center of the Communist Party of China, the Commercial Press and other units was held in Beijing on the 20th. At the meeting, it was announced that Chinese netizens voted through the official media “Xinhuanet” to select the domestic representative character for 2023 as ” “Stimulate the economy”, the organizer interpreted it as “boosting the economy steadily and steadily”.

China Central Television reported that the unveiling ceremony announced that “Zhen”, “High-Quality Development”, “Danger”, and “ChatGPT” were selected as the domestic word, domestic word, international word, and international word of the year respectively.

According to the report, the domestic representative word “Zhen” and the representative word “High-Quality Development” mean “high-quality development inspires people”; the international representative word “Danger” and the representative word “ChatGPT” are related to the escalation of war and technological innovation in 2023. .

The word “Zhen” attracted a lot of criticism from Weibo netizens.

“Depressed”, “Failed to recover”, “To panic, the market is in a bad state”, “To cheer with plausibility”, “It’s more appropriate to bullshit, to bullshit”, “Ordinary people don’t say this word once a year, I guess it’s just a matter of fighting the eternal calamity.”

“I think ordinary people are ‘lying’, the workplace is ‘suffering’, and the officialdom is ‘greedy’.” “I don’t know how many people can relate to this word of the year when they hear it. Why don’t I provide one. Word of the Year: Difficulty, word of the year: troubled.” “When will ‘seeking truth from facts’ become the word of the year?”

“Run”, “miserable”, “shocky”, “rotten”, “lying”, “green”, life is dim, especially the stock market. “Personally, it should be falling. The economy is falling, housing prices are falling, the stock market is falling, and people’s hearts are Fall.” “I’m very ill”, “Can you stop being so disgusting”, “Can you keep pretending?”

“The country is ‘boosting’? Shouldn’t it be ‘destroying’! It’s hard for graduates to find jobs! Unfinished buildings! Many places are cutting wages and laying off employees! Whitewashing the peace!” “It is recommended to ban this institution… These institutions and personnel are a waste of taxpayers’ money. , insulting the intelligence of taxpayers.”

“We can’t access/use this thing about International Words, right? How can we rate it?” “Danger refers to the stock market, right?”

(Network screenshot)

Editor in charge: Li Lin#

2023-12-20 20:14:17
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