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BEIJING - Chinese
President Hu Jintao urged maintaining steady
and relatively fast economic development in
a New Year address broadcast Thursday to
domestic and overseas audience via state TV
and radio stations.
Chinese President Hu Jintao delivers a New
Year address broadcast to domestic and
overseas audience via state TV and radio
stations in Beijing on Thursday, December
31, 2009, the 2010 New Year Eve. [Xinhua]
He said in 2009, in the face of global
financial crisis, Chinese people of all
ethnic groups united together and firmly
adhered to maintaining steady and relatively
fast economic development as the primary
task in economic work.
"People's life continued to improve and the
society was kept harmonious and stable,"
said Hu in the address, titled "Jointly
Create A Beautiful Future of World Peace and
Development," broadcast by China Radio
International, China Central Television, and
China National Radio.
Hu said that the year 2010 is the last year
of the country's 11th Five-Year Plan period
and the country will continue to implement a
proactive fiscal policy and a moderately
easy monetary policy.
Hu added that the country will stick to the
guidelines of "one country, two systems",
"Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong",
"Macao people governing Macao" and a high
degree of autonomy to maintain long-term
prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and
Macao.
He said the policy of "peaceful
reunification and one country, two systems"
will be adhered to and exchanges and
cooperation across the Taiwan Strait will be
enhanced to bring more benefits to people on
both sides.
"I'd like to solemnly reiterate that China
will hold high the flag of peace,
development and cooperation and firmly
adhere to the foreign policy of maintaining
world peace and promoting common development,"
Hu said.
He said China will develop friendly
cooperation with all other countries on the
basis of the five principles of co-existence
and continue to actively participate in
international cooperation on issues such as
coping with the international financial
crisis and climate change.
"We will work with people of all countries
to jointly promote the construction of a
harmonious world of lasting peace and common
prosperity," said Hu.
He said at this moment, there are still
people in the world who are suffering from
war, poverty, disease and natural calamities.
The Chinese people are deeply sympathetic
and will continue to do all they can to help
them.
An article by Hu on Party building in a new
situation will be published in Qiu Shi (Seeking
Truth), an official magazine of the
Communist Party of China Central Committee,
on January 1, 2010.
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