Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 8
Speech at the 2024 Spring Festival Group Reunion
(February 8, 2024, morning)
Xi Jinping
Comrades and friends:
The Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is coming. Today, we gather here to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
First of all, on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, I would like to extend my best wishes for the holiday to everyone! Happy New Year to the people of all ethnic groups across the country and to our compatriots in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese!
The Year of the Rabbit, which is about to pass, is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Faced with an extremely complex international environment and the arduous and arduous tasks of reform, development and stability, we have concentrated our efforts on Chinese-style modernization, coordinated both domestic and international situations, worked tenaciously, and moved forward with courage, overcoming multiple difficulties and challenges, and building socialism in an all-round way. Take solid steps on the new journey of modernizing the country.
Over the past year, we have fully implemented the new development concept, adhered to the general tone of work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, resolutely implemented the transition to COVID-19 prevention and control, and promoted economic recovery and development. The total economic volume has exceeded 126 trillion yuan, the total grain output has reached a new high, and employment has , prices are generally stable. Looking at the world, it is still "the scenery here is unique." Scientific and technological innovation has achieved new breakthroughs, and new quality productivity has accelerated. Reform and opening up continue to deepen, and a new round of party and state institutional reform has been basically completed. The ecological environment continues to improve. National defense and military modernization have taken new steps. The Chengdu Universiade and the Hangzhou Asian Games were successfully held, and our country's athletes achieved good results. We will deepen the comprehensive and strict governance of the party and the fight against corruption, and continuously consolidate a good political environment.
We put the people first, strive to protect and improve people's livelihood, continue to consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation, solve the people's urgent and anxious problems with heart and soul, and go all out to respond to natural disasters and promote post-disaster recovery and construction, and the overall social situation remains stable.
We actively support Hong Kong and Macao to better integrate into the overall development of the country, resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist actions and interference from external forces, and vigorously defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests. Solidly promote major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, add certainty and positive energy to a world intertwined with chaos, and demonstrate our responsibility to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Looking back on the hard work over the past year, we realize more deeply that comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization is not only a bright road for the Chinese people to pursue a better and happy life, but also a just road to promote world peace and development. As long as we persist in the same path and unchanging will, remain consistent and work together, we will surely be able to overcome various difficulties and obstacles in our progress and continue to move towards the other side of success!
Comrades and friends!
2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of New China and is a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan". We must adhere to the general tone of the work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, implement the requirements of seeking progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through promotion, and establishing first and then breaking. We must fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, and highlight key points. , grasp the key, forge ahead with determination, work hard, effectively enhance economic vitality, prevent and resolve risks, improve social expectations, consolidate and enhance the positive economic recovery, continue to improve people's livelihood and well-being, and maintain overall social harmony and stability. It is necessary to further comprehensively deepen reforms, focus on breaking down deep-seated institutional obstacles and structural contradictions, fully stimulate the entrepreneurial, innovative and creative energy of the whole society, inject strong impetus into promoting Chinese-style modernization, and enable Chinese-style modernization to overcome obstacles and move forward in an indomitable manner.
Comrades and friends!
The dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation. It has a strong and majestic appearance, a brave and fearless spirit, a feeling of blessing the world, and an incomparable power. It not only symbolizes the Chinese nation’s spirit of self-improvement and enterprising spirit over the past five thousand years, but also carries the spirit of the new era. In the new era of the times, hundreds of millions of Chinese people have the firm will and good wishes to promote the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation. In the Year of the Dragon, I hope that people across the country will inspire the spirit of the dragon and horse, forge ahead with the energy of a dragon soaring and a tiger leaping, and a fish leaping over the dragon's gate, to pioneer, innovate, work hard and contribute, and jointly write a new chapter in China's modernization drive.
Finally, I wish you all good health, smooth work, happy family, and good luck in the Year of the Dragon!
thank you all!