(A Closer Look at China) 2023 New Year's Congratulations, Xi Jinping Outlines "Tomorrow's China"
China News Agency, Beijing, January 1, title: 2023 New Year's speech, Xi Jinping outlines "Tomorrow's China"
China News Agency reporter Huang Yuqin Liang Xiaohui
The New Year's bell is ringing, and people are looking back to the future.
At this special moment, farewell to the past and expectations for the future are intertwined, giving everyone the strength to move forward, both for individuals and for the country.
When time opens a new chapter, the world pays attention again—how will China bid farewell to the past, summarize the present, and look forward to the future?
The answer is contained in Chinese President Xi Jinping's New Year's message in 2023: "The history is long and magnificent, and generations of people have worked hard to create today's China." "We must go forward and work hard to make tomorrow's China better. .”
When the answer that spans time is slowly revealed, a tomorrow's China is slowly approaching.
On New Year's Eve, President Xi Jinping delivered a New Year's message for 2023 through China Central Radio and Television and the Internet.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng
This is a China struggling to move forward.
"Struggle" has always been the key word in Xi Jinping's New Year's message.
Looking back on the past, from "no pie in the sky, hard work can make dreams come true", to "the journey is long, only struggle", and then to "tomorrow's China, struggle will create miracles", "struggle" has become the most distinctive attitude towards China summary.
In the past year, whether it was the launch of a new aircraft carrier, or the launch of a large plane, whether it was galloping on the ice and snow arena, or soaring in the sky in the "space home"... Chinese people use "struggle" to connect dreams and reality. In the New Year's greetings, he sighed: "All of this is condensed with the hard work and sweat of countless people. A little spark, gathered into a torch, this is the power of China!"
"Struggle" also connects China's today and tomorrow.
The fruits of today's struggle are the source of confidence for a better China tomorrow.
In the past year, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made plans for the future, and Chinese-style modernization accelerated, drawing a more precise blueprint for tomorrow's China.
A struggling and sensible China is marching forward.
This is a more united China.
The repeated delays of the epidemic in the past year have made people feel the value of solidarity.
It is mutual solidarity that makes strangers start to encourage and help each other.
Food and medicine, poetry collections and novels are shuttled between communities and buildings, healing each other's body and soul.
As the famous novelist Camus once wrote, "A look of kindness is always more powerful than the plague."
Now that the prevention and control of the epidemic has entered a new stage, Xi Jinping's words in his New Year's message bring more strength to people: "Everyone work harder, persistence is victory, and unity is victory."
Because of unity, people have overcome unprecedented difficulties, "it is not easy for everyone".
Looking at the road ahead, the risks and challenges in the future will not diminish in the slightest, and it still needs "more than 1.4 billion Chinese people to think and act in one direction."
Only in this way, "There is nothing that cannot be done, and there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome."
If you cast your eyes on the world, the word "unity" can read a far-reaching meaning under the changing situation in a century.
In the past year, whether he used the metaphor of "a big ship with a shared destiny" in the video conference of the World Economic Forum, or quoted the Indonesian proverb "sugar cane grows in the same hole, and lemongrass grows in clumps" at the G20 Bali summit, Xi Jinping has conveyed a China's wish to closely connect with the world and "be more united" with other countries.
This kind of unity is like the "One World, One Family" fireworks rising above the Bird's Nest at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. China is continuing to light up the world with such a firm worldview.
"We always cherish peace and development, and always cherish friends and partners," Xi Jinping said again in his New Year's message.
It is not difficult to foresee that despite the endless global challenges, the China of tomorrow will still use its own certainty to help the world unite.
This is a China full of youth.
As time goes by, Xi Jinping praised the extraordinary things done by ordinary people many times in his New Year's speech, and different groups have entered his "annual memory" one after another.
This time, Xi Jinping specifically mentioned Chinese youth—the prosperity of the youth leads to the prosperity of the country.
In a youthful China, hope rests in every youth.
In the past year, Xi Jinping expressed his expectations for young people on many occasions on different occasions, including sincere letter dialogues and cordial conversations in colleges and universities.
He compares youth to a thriving young tree, which will one day "hold up a piece of sky", and also compares youth to a rising sun, "for a moment, it will fill the earth with light and heat".
"Youth is full of vigor, and youth breeds hope." Talking about tomorrow's China in his New Year's message, Xi Jinping once again made a request to the youth, hoping that the majority of young people "live up to the times and live up to the years of China."
In today's China, young people are shouldering the responsibility to realize the good.
Facing the difficulties and challenges in life, the pain of growing up and the joy of success go hand in hand.
At the same time, every young person is choosing what attitude he will take to enter tomorrow's China.
It seems small, but it is precisely each of these choices that constitutes a confident and upward social picture for China in the future.
This kind of improvement is exactly what a struggling, united and youthful China is heading for a better tomorrow.
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