Xi Jinping: As long as you have the ambition of the foolish old man to move mountains, the perseverance to wear water through rocks, keep your feet on the ground, work hard, and accumulate steps to thousands of miles, you will be able to turn the grand goal into a beautiful reality.

　　This passage is from the 2023 New Year's message delivered by President Xi Jinping on December 31, 2022.

　　Advocating struggle and using struggle to create a better life is a traditional virtue inherited by the Chinese nation for more than five thousand years, and it is also a common life attitude and value pursuit of us Chinese today.

During the Spring Festival holiday that just passed, tens of millions of families reunited and shared the joy of life brought about by hard work, and many people continued to work hard in their ordinary positions as always.

Taxi drivers, scenic spot staff, catering operators, and express couriers from all over the country hope to seize the opportunities brought by the consumer market during the Spring Festival and work harder in exchange for a better life for their families.

Public security and traffic police, fire rescue, power supply and heating, railway civil aviation, medical and health and other public service industries, and countless people stick to their posts to protect the lights of thousands of homes and ensure social safety and joy.

As soon as the Spring Festival holiday is over, people return to work one after another, starting a new year of work and struggle in a new state.

　　These realistic scenes truly reflect the excellent quality of the Chinese nation's courage and courage to fight for a better life, and demonstrate the great power of struggle and creation.

It is because every ordinary person like you and me is devoted to their jobs, works diligently in different positions, constantly hone their skills, increase their talents, and create value, so we have the opportunity to gradually realize our personal dreams and let ourselves and our families live a happier and better life. Life.

It is precisely because more than 1.4 billion Chinese people persist in unity, struggle, innovation and creation that all walks of life and various undertakings in our country can develop rapidly, the country's comprehensive strength can be continuously improved, and the people's living standards can be continuously improved.

Especially in the past very extraordinary year, in the face of the turbulent international environment and the arduous and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, more than 1.4 billion Chinese people went hand in hand , To meet the challenges and work together, the GDP has exceeded 121 trillion yuan, and the number of newly employed people in cities and towns across the country has reached 12.06 million.

Practice has proved that no pain, no gain, happiness comes from struggle, and struggle itself is a kind of happiness.

　　This year is the first year for us to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

On the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, in the face of various challenges in the future, we have no shortcuts to achieve our great goals. Chinese-style modernization contributes wisdom and sweat, gradually realizes our personal dream and Chinese dream, and constantly turns our grand blueprint into a beautiful reality.

　　Interpretation of this issue: Chen Ruihai, commentator of CNR