A great nation in the course of
development and 5,000 years of its civilisation, the Chinese nation has
made an indelible contribution to human civilisation and progress
WHEN
Xi Jinping and his new Chinese Communist Party (CCP) top brass line-up
were introduced to the media last November, the party general-secretary
set the tone for a majestic dream that the whole nation will pursue in
the next decade.
The dream is to unify China and Taiwan. The grand mission is bring China back to its glorious past during the ancient times.
Its
goal is to become a moderately prosperous society by 2020. All in all,
this is what the Chinese call the great rejuvenation of the Chinese
nation.
“Our nation is a great nation. In the course of
development and 5,000 years of its civilisation, the Chinese nation has
made an indelible contribution to human civilisation and progress,” Xi
said.
“Since then, in order to achieve the great rejuvenation of
the Chinese nation, numerous people with lofty ideals had launched
protests but once again they failed to do so. After the founding of the
CCP, we got the people united and transformed a poor and backward China
into a prosperous new China. We can now see the unprecedented bright
prospect of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
Xi then promised to work hard and lead the people to their revival.
In
his final address at Tuesday’s meeting of the National People’s
Congress as Chinese Premier after 10 years of service, the outgoing Wen
Jiabao again stressed the party’s resolve in seeing the reunification of
China one day.
“We should adhere to the central government’s
major policies on Taiwan, fully implement the important ideas of
peaceful development and deepen the cross-strait relations through
politics, economy and culture.
“We should make concerted effort to complete the reunification process of our motherland,” he said.
According
to Zhang Ping, who is the chairman of the National Development and
Reform Commission, which approves major projects and strategies policies
to maintain the country’s economic vitality, a strong and sound economy
will continue to be one of the main forces to rejuvenate the nation.
He
said in the past five years, China experienced a fast yet stable
economic growth of 9.3% on average and its GDP grew from over 30
trillion yuan (RM14.98tril) in 2008 to 50 trillion yuan (RM24.98tril)
last year.
The rural residents’ income increased by 9.9% while
that of urbanites rose 8.8%. Compared with other developed or developing
nations, such a growth rate was considered one of the fastest, he
added.
“I would not want to say that ‘only the landscape over
here is good’ but we have indeed achieved great results. While
maintaining a stable yet progressive growth, our economic structure
especially domestic demand has further improved.
“Boosting
domestic demand is the most effective measure that we had taken to win
the war against the global financial crisis and respond to external
crisis,” he said at a press conference on Wednesday.
Zhang said,
in a way, the measure had offset the negative growth of external demand
for Chinese goods amid the crisis and encouraged a wave of
innovativeness among companies.
Moving forward, he said China
would need to continue with its social and economic reform especially in
the financial sector, fiscal and taxation mechanism, income
distribution system and revamp of state-owned enterprises.
He
attributed the meteoric rise of China becoming a productive, relatively
prosperous and internationally competitive nation throughout the last 30
years to its unwavering path on reforms.
“The main driving force
for China’s future development will still depend on reform. By 2020,
our goal is not only to build a moderately prosperous society but also
deepen economic reform.
“We will also have to further improve our
economic structure based on socialist capital market and ensure all our
economic and social systems become more mature,” he said.
He
said China was facing problems of overcapacity especially in the iron
and steel, aluminium, cement, glass, coke, photovoltaic and wind energy
equipment industries, in the course of its transformation into one of
the world’s biggest manufacturing-based nations.
He said the
government would have to strike a balance and maintain only companies
which were energy efficient and high technology centric.
“We will
make sure the people earn enough money and have money to spend and this
will boost domestic consumption which is key to our economic
development.
“At last year’s 18th CCP National Congress, the
leadership and party delegates further triggered the enthusiasm of the
Chinese people to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation
and this provides us with great strength to leap forward.”
Made in China By CHOW HOW BAN
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