Unlike in previous years, Xi did not talk about China’s GDP in his address.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping in his 2022 New Year’s address stressed the importance of maintaining “strategic focus” and being mindful of “potential risks” in the Communist Party’s long-term vision to transform China into a global power.
Xi announced in 2021 that China had achieved its goal of building a so-called “moderately prosperous” society, established the People’s Republic of China, a milestone on its way to becoming a global leader in 2049. th anniversary.
“We must always take a long-term view, be mindful of potential risks, maintain strategic focus and determination, and achieve ‘the broad and the great while addressing the delicate and minute,'” Xi said in a televised speech.
China, where the coronavirus was first identified in late 2019, has focused on its past and present achievements, including quickly getting COVID-19 under control as its economy recovers from a pandemic slowdown. Steam has been lost and relations with the United States have declined. new climbs.
Xi said the complete integration of the “homeland” was an aspiration shared by peoples on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, referring to the self-governing island of Taiwan, which he considers “sacred” territory.
“I sincerely hope that all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation will join forces to build a bright future for our country,” he said.
Earlier this week, a Beijing official warned that China would take “drastic measures” if Taiwan took vigorous democratic steps toward formal independence.
Xi also stressed the importance of stability in the former British colony of Hong Kong and the former Portuguese-run enclave of Macau, which returned to China in 1997 and 1999, respectively.
Under the handover deal, Hong Kong was promised that broad personal freedoms, including freedom of speech, would be protected.
But activists complain those freedoms have been eroded since China passed a new national security law in 2020 to quell dissent in the wake of violent pro-democracy, anti-China street protests a year earlier.
Chinese and Hong Kong officials have defended the law if necessary to restore order.
Unlike in previous years, Xi did not talk about China’s GDP in his address.
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