Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 11

Speech at the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress

(March 11, 2024)

Zhao Leji

  Dear representatives:

  The Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress successfully completed all agenda items.

With the joint efforts of all representatives and relevant parties, the meeting was a success, gathering consensus, clarifying tasks, and strengthening confidence. It was a meeting that held high the banner, worked hard, and forged ahead in unity.

  During the conference, the deputies shouldered the great trust of the party and the people, performed their duties in accordance with the law with full political enthusiasm and high spirits, and carefully reviewed various reports and proposals. The results of the conference fully reflected the unity of the party's ideas and the people's will, and demonstrated the The remarkable advantages of whole-process people's democracy and the country's fundamental political system.

  Dear representatives!

  This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and is a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan".

It is of great significance to conscientiously implement the various tasks set by the conference and strive to achieve the annual economic and social development goals.

  Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, work together with one heart and one mind, work together, and unswervingly advance Chinese modernization.

It is necessary to practice the people-centered development idea, develop the whole process of people's democracy, fully respect the people's expressed wishes, created experiences, rights and roles, and stimulate the enthusiasm and vitality of the whole society for entrepreneurship, innovation and creation. , bringing together the powerful force of unity and struggle.

It requires being pragmatic, working hard, overcoming difficulties, doing well, working hard to overcome difficulties one by one, doing practical things one by one, completing tasks one by one, and constantly realizing the people's yearning for a better life in united struggle.

  Dear representatives!

  Unity and struggle is the only way for the Chinese people to create great historical achievements.

Let us unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, unite as one, work hard and make unremitting efforts to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization!