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President's message of peace and prosperity

IN his New Year's address, Chinese President Hu Jintao said China will forge ahead with reform and opening up as well as its drive for modernization in 2013.

Wishing Chinese and people across the world a happy new year, he said that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping as general secretary, the Chinese people were forging ahead toward completing the building of a moderately prosperous society.

Hu said China would continue to transform its economic development pattern as well as pursue progress while ensuring stability in the year ahead.

China will stick to the guidelines of "one country, two systems," "Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong," and "Macau people governing Macau," with a high degree of autonomy, thus facilitating the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macau, Hu said.

"We will continue to promote the peaceful development of mainland-Taiwan ties, bring benefit to compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and guard the fundamental interests of the Chinese nation," he said.

Moreover, he said the Chinese people's determination to pursue a road of peaceful development would never waver no matter how volatile the international situation may become.

"The Chinese people are always the ones that will firmly promote world peace and development," he said. The country will encourage and adopt peaceful means to properly settle both international and regional issues, Hu said.

"China will work hard to facilitate the robust, sustainable and balanced growth of the world economy and play its role as a responsible major power," he added.





 

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