2023 New Year Address by President Xi Jinping

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — On New 12 months’s eve, President Xi Jinping delivered his 2023 New 12 months Handle by means of China Media Group and the Web. The next is the total textual content of the handle:

Greetings to you all. The 12 months 2023 is approaching. From Beijing, I lengthen my finest New 12 months needs to all of you.

In 2022, we efficiently convened the twentieth Nationwide Congress of the Communist Occasion of China (CPC). An formidable blueprint has been drawn for constructing a contemporary socialist nation in all respects and advancing the good rejuvenation of the Chinese language nation on all fronts by means of a Chinese language path to modernization, sounding a clarion name of the instances for us forging forward on a brand new journey.

The Chinese language economic system has remained the second largest on the planet and loved sound growth. GDP for the entire 12 months is predicted to exceed 120 trillion yuan. Regardless of a world meals disaster, now we have secured a bumper harvest for the nineteenth 12 months in a row, placing us in a stronger place to make sure the meals provide of the Chinese language folks. We have now consolidated our features in poverty elimination and superior rural revitalization throughout the board. We have now launched tax and price cuts and different measures to ease the burden on companies, and made lively efforts to unravel probably the most urgent difficulties of excessive concern to the folks.

Since COVID-19 struck, now we have put the folks first and put life first all alongside. Following a science-based and focused strategy, now we have tailored our COVID response in gentle of the evolving scenario to guard the life and well being of the folks to the best extent potential. Officers and most people, significantly medical professionals and neighborhood staff, have bravely caught to their posts by means of all of it. With extraordinary efforts, now we have prevailed over unprecedented difficulties and challenges, and it has not been a straightforward journey for anybody. We have now now entered a brand new part of COVID response the place robust challenges stay. Everyone seems to be holding on with nice fortitude, and the sunshine of hope is true in entrance of us. Let’s make an additional effort to tug by means of, as perseverance and solidarity imply victory.

Comrade Jiang Zemin handed away in 2022. We pay excessive tribute to his towering achievements and noble demeanor, and cherish the good legacy he left behind. We are going to honor his final needs and advance the reason for socialism with Chinese language traits within the new period.

Wave upon wave, the mighty river of historical past surges ahead. With the persistent efforts of 1 technology after one other, now we have taken China to the place it’s at present.

At this time’s China is a rustic the place desires turn into actuality. The Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Winter Video games concluded with a powerful success. Chinese language winter sports activities athletes gave their all and achieved extraordinary outcomes. Shenzhou-13, Shenzhou-14 and Shenzhou-15 soared into the heavens. China’s house station was absolutely accomplished and our “residence in house” is roving within the deep-blue sky. The folks’s armed forces marked the ninety fifth birthday and all service members are marching confidently on the good journey of constructing a powerful navy. China’s third plane provider Fujian was launched. C919, China’s first massive passenger plane, was delivered. And the Baihetan hydropower station went into full operation… None of those achievements would have been potential with out the sweat and toil of the quite a few Chinese language folks. Sparks of expertise are coming collectively, and they’re the power of China!

At this time’s China is a rustic brimming with vigor and vitality. Varied pilot free commerce zones and the Hainan Free Commerce Port are booming, improvements are gushing out within the coastal areas, growth is selecting up tempo within the central and western areas, the momentum for revitalization is constructing within the northeast, and there’s higher growth and affluence within the border areas. The Chinese language economic system enjoys sturdy resilience, large potential and nice vitality. The basics sustaining its long-term development have remained sturdy. So long as we keep assured and attempt for progress whereas sustaining stability, we’ll notice the objectives now we have set. On my go to to Hong Kong earlier this 12 months, I used to be deeply glad to see that Hong Kong has restored order and is ready to thrive once more. With decided implementation of One Nation, Two Methods, Hong Kong and Macao will certainly take pleasure in long-term prosperity and stability.

At this time’s China is a rustic that retains to its nationwide character. In the midst of 2022, we encountered varied pure disasters together with earthquakes, floods, droughts and wildfires, and skilled some office accidents. Amid these disconcerting and heartbreaking scenes, there have emerged quite a few touching tales of individuals sticking collectively in face of adversity and even sacrificing their lives to assist others in misery. These heroic deeds will probably be ceaselessly etched in our reminiscences. At each flip of the 12 months, we at all times consider the good character of resilience that the Chinese language nation has carried ahead by means of millennia. It offers us nonetheless higher confidence as we proceed our means ahead.

At this time’s China is a rustic intently linked with the world. Over the previous 12 months, I’ve hosted fairly a couple of pals, each outdated and new, in Beijing; I’ve additionally traveled overseas to speak China’s propositions to the world. Modifications unseen in a century are unfolding at a sooner tempo, and the world will not be but a tranquil place. We cherish peace and growth and worth pals and companions as now we have at all times achieved. We stand agency on the correct aspect of historical past and on the aspect of human civilization and progress. We work arduous to contribute China’s knowledge and options to the reason for peace and growth for all humanity.

After the twentieth CPC Nationwide Congress, my colleagues and I visited Yan’an. We have been there to relive the inspiring episode during which the Occasion’s central management overcame extraordinary difficulties within the Nineteen Thirties and Nineteen Forties, and to attract on the religious power of the older technology of CPC members. I typically say, “Simply as sharpening makes jade finer, adversity makes one stronger.” Over the previous 100 years, the CPC has braved wind and rain, and cast forward towards all odds. That could be a most troublesome but nice journey. At this time, we should press on courageously to make tomorrow’s China a greater place.

Going ahead, China will probably be a rustic that performs miracles by means of arduous work. Right here I need to quote Su Shi, a famend Chinese language poet, “Cost on the hardest and goal on the farthest.” It means to tackle the largest challenges and go after probably the most formidable objectives. Lengthy because the journey is, we’ll attain our vacation spot if we keep the course; troublesome as the duty is, we’ll get the job achieved if we maintain working at it. So long as now we have the resolve to maneuver mountains and the perseverance to plod on, so long as we maintain our ft on the bottom and forge forward with our journey by making regular progress, we’ll flip our grand objectives into actuality.

Going ahead, China will probably be a rustic that attracts its power from unity. Ours is a giant nation. It is just pure for various folks to have completely different considerations or maintain completely different views on the identical difficulty. What issues is that we construct consensus by means of communication and session. When the 1.4 billion Chinese language work with one coronary heart and one thoughts, and stand in unity with a powerful will, no job will probably be unattainable and no problem insurmountable. The folks on each side of the Taiwan Strait are members of 1 and the identical household. I sincerely hope that our compatriots on each side of the Strait will work along with a unity of goal to collectively foster lasting prosperity of the Chinese language nation.

Going ahead, China will probably be a rustic that has nice expectations of its youthful technology. A nation will prosper solely when its younger folks thrive. For China to develop additional, our younger folks should step ahead and tackle their obligations. Youth is filled with vigor and is a supply of hope. Kids ought to maintain their nation in thoughts, domesticate eager enterprise, and reside youth to the fullest with nice drive, to show worthy of the instances and the splendor of youth.

To the numerous people who find themselves nonetheless busy working at this very second, I salute you all! We’re about to ring within the New 12 months. Allow us to welcome the primary ray of sunshine of 2023 with the very best needs for a brighter future.

Might our nation take pleasure in prosperity and our folks reside in concord. Might the world take pleasure in peace and other people of all international locations reside in happiness. I want you all a cheerful New 12 months and will all of your needs come true.

Thanks.