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.

该评选主办单位商务印书馆和国家语言资源监测与研究中心表示，年度字词是从网友推荐的1.1万多个字词中经过在线投票选出来的。

Also, the character "Kong," (terror) and the word "counterterrorism" were chosen as representative of international affairs.

国际方面，“恐”“反恐”分别当选年度字、词。

Runners-up included "slump," "second child," "chaotic" and "Islamic State" ISIL or Daesh, with "smog", "Belt and Road" and "refugee" also popular candidates.

今年的候选名单中，“跌”、“二孩”、“乱”、“伊斯兰国”、“一带一路”以及“难民”等字词也相当热门。

Last year's character and word/phrase were "law" and "anticorruption."

去年的年度字、词分别为“法”和“反腐”。

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