The buzzwords that defined China’s 2024

World Today

As we bid farewell to 2024, various Chinese publications have released their annual lists of the “Top Buzzwords of the Year,” each offering a unique lens on the nation’s social, cultural, and economic dynamics.

From China’s innovative development driven by new-quality productive forces and digital transformation, to cultural and economic phenomena such as the global success of the video game Black Myth: Wukong and the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, what best defined China in 2024?

Host Ge Anna is joined by Andy Mok, a Tech Analyst and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization (CCG); Prof. Qu Qiang, a Fellow of the Belt and Road Research Center at Minzu University of China; and Prof. Li Lun, an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Peking University School of Economics.