2015年度中国汉字 廉
The Chinese character "Lian", or "clean governance," has been chosen by Chinese netizens as the character of the year 2015, and "Internet Plus" as the word/phrase of the year.
通过网友票选，“廉”字当选为2015年度中国汉字，“互联网+”成为年度中国词汇。
The winners were chosen after an online poll from more than 11,000 candidate characters and words recommended by Internet users, the selection's co-organizers -- the Chinese National Language Monitoring and Research Center and the Commercial Press announced on Monday.
Also, the character "Kong," (terror) and the word "counterterrorism" were chosen as representative of international affairs.
Runners-up included "slump," "second child," "chaotic" and "Islamic State" ISIL or Daesh, with "smog", "the Belt and Road" and "refugee" also popular candidates.
Last year's character and word/phrase were "law" and "anticorruption."