I was interested to know how China's leaders are trying to build China's future, how they plan to generate a "harmonious society" in a land of various ethnic groups with differing backgrounds, cultures, languages, standards of living, economies, education and much much more besides.
So I watched some on TV and for the first few days, it was quite interesting following proceedings, but after two or three days it became simply a repetitive sequence of reports and interviews, packed full of regurgitated buzzwords, that had recently been introduced by Chinese political leaders, in their communications regarding the future development of China.
It reminded me of a game we used to play in meetings when I was in my first IT job at IBM. We soon discovered that any meetings arranged with managers or business/marketing departments were always packed with a heap of IT and business buzzwords. So someone found a game called "Buzzword Bingo" which was a bingo card filled with management/marketing buzzwords instead of numbers. I think it's well I know these days and a game card looked something like this..
Watching CCTV for a day or two during the NPC/CPPCC sessions reminded me of this game and if you replace the words with those listed below you can make your own Chinese political Buzzword Bingo ! ;-)
"harmonious society",
"new socialist countryside",
"one country two systems" (this is an old favourite),
"private property rights",
"level playing field",
"peaceful reunification",
"macroeconomic controls",
"agricultural modernisation",
"five year plan",
"socialist market economy",
"social harmony",
"economic and social development",
"opposition to secessionist activities",
"equal education oppurtunities",
"independent innovation".
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