(A closer look at China) After a special year, Xi Jinping’s New Year’s message conveys China’s confidence
China News Service, Beijing, January 1st, title: After a special year, Xi Jinping’s New Year’s message conveys China’s confidence
Author Huang Yuqin
On New Year's Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a New Year's message for the year 21 in Beijing.
As a window to observe China's political life, this new year's message is even more special.
Facing the extremely unusual 2020, how China will summarize the extremely extraordinary past, how to look forward to and face the uncertain future, has attracted much attention from the outside world.
Experts interviewed by China News Agency said that looking at China’s past and future from the New Year’s greetings, the word “confidence” is the key to interpreting its meaning. “Confidence” has not only been China’s continuous overcoming of difficulties and progress in the past year. The portrayal of the trip is also China's attitude of shaping the international community to face global challenges, and "confidence" conveys China's attitude toward the future.
On the morning of January 1, a grand flag-raising ceremony was held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
The picture shows people watching and shooting the flag raising ceremony.
(Data map) Photo by China News Agency reporter Jiang Qiming
From overcoming the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic to resisting severe floods, from achieving economic growth from negative to positive to achieving the goal of poverty alleviation in the new era as scheduled, Xi Jinping described the "extremely extraordinary year" that China has experienced in 2020 in his New Year's message , And bluntly said that "the hard side shows courage, and the hard work begins to succeed."
It is observed that China’s confidence is derived from the extraordinary achievements made in extraordinary years.
"In the past year, new risks and challenges have emerged in an endless stream, but China has steadfastly come over." Xue Lan, a professor at the School of Public Administration of Tsinghua University, said that the achievements made through unremitting efforts are the foundation of China's confidence. China has the confidence and ability to meet the challenges ahead.
More importantly, China's confidence is not abstract, but embodied in every specific individual.
Angels in white clothes, people’s soldiers, scientific researchers, community workers, volunteers, engineering builders, and poverty alleviation cadres...In this special year, there are unwilling figures, powers to believe in the future, and moving scenes are constantly moving. After swiping the social network, he also walked into Xi Jinping’s New Year’s greetings. In the congratulatory message, he said, “Ordinary makes great, heroes come from the people. Everyone is great!”
According to China's Internet search big data statistics, "belief", "hope" and "courage" have become the emotional keywords of the Chinese people in 2020.
Professor Zhu Lijia of the Central Party School (National School of Administration) analyzed that in the face of unprecedented challenges, personal destiny is more closely intertwined with the times. "The power of belief" has accompanied people through an extraordinary year. The so-called confidence in China is every All people have faith in their hearts.
When the epidemic situation of the century has been superimposed and the situation has changed over a hundred years, the whole world will be the same, and China's confidence has more global significance.
In his New Year's message, Xi Jinping said that after a year of ups and downs, we have more deeply understood the meaning of a community with a shared future for mankind than ever before.
Experts pointed out that it is precisely because "the great road is not alone, the world is one family", China's confidence and practice will inject the self-confidence and self-reliance power to actively respond to global challenges in a world full of uncertainty.
"The epidemic will eventually be defeated by mankind, and victory will certainly belong to the people of the world." "The trend of the times of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win is unstoppable"... After 2020, despite the continuous impact of anti-globalization on the international order, From the series of meetings for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations to the Shanghai Cooperation Summit, from the BRICS meeting to the G20 summit, Chinese leaders have continuously conveyed China’s confidence in the future of the world at important multilateral meetings, calling for adherence to multilateralism and solidarity and cooperation.
On the evening of November 4, 2020, the opening ceremony of the Third China International Import Expo was held in Shanghai. Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech in a video format.
(Data map) Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
"During the diplomacy of a special year, China has seen the common expectations of most countries in the world for the future by expounding China's propositions to deal with global challenges." Guo Yanjun, director of the Institute of Asian Studies of China Foreign Affairs University, said that under this interaction China’s self-confidence and self-improvement have injected impetus into the world’s response to global challenges, and the positive voices from the international community have further strengthened China’s confidence in improving global governance.
Looking forward to 2021, how will the world get back on track?
When will the global pandemic end?
How can the economy recover quickly after the epidemic?
How will the international situation change in the post-epidemic period?
A series of questions tell people that the future world is still full of uncertainty.
How will China feel about the uncertain future?
In response to this, Xi Jinping said in his New Year's message that standing at the historical intersection of the "two centuries", a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country is about to begin.
The journey is long, only struggle.
We have gone through thousands of waters and mountains through struggle and overcoming obstacles.
We must continue to struggle and move forward courageously.
Observations pointed out that China’s confidence in the future determines its future-oriented attitude, and hard work and struggle are the concrete manifestations of this attitude, which will help deal with the uncertainty caused by the external environment.
Zhu Lijia said that China's confidence in the future is based on a clear understanding of its own development goals.
Whether it is the forthcoming fourteenth five-year plan or the 2035 long-term goal, a clear direction of struggle and a pragmatic attitude continue to transform the cohesive confidence into concrete measures.
"Faced with the uncertainty of the external environment, China's own confidence affects the specific path of development." Guo Yanjun analyzed and pointed out that "the journey is long, only struggle" is a definite interpretation of China's development momentum, which is conducive to coping with the external environment. Change will also become an important force shaping the certainty of the world.
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