Not 'small goal' to build hot word list

Xiaomubiao - "small goal" in English - was one of the hottest phrases in China last year, according to a new set of lists released by the State Language Committee.

Netizens began widely using the term after Wang Jianlin, the chairman of Dalian Wanda Group, described making a fortune of 100 million yuan ($14.8 million) as a small goal in an interview in August.

Although he used it to mean something that is easily achieved, people on social media used it more ironically to express a goal that is well beyond their reach or even impossible.