President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China has achieved the main objectives of economic and social progress last year and that its Gross Domestic Product is expected to increase around 5% in 2024.
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at a meeting organized by the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the most sensible political advisory framework. from China. , to welcome the new year.
“Faced with demanding situations resulting from domestic and foreign situations, we responded calmly with the implementation of a complete diversity of steps,” he said, welcoming the encouraging achievements that were made in the last ordinary year.
Xi also praised the CPPCC’s contribution to the development of the Party and the country through its fulfillment of duties over the past year and encouraged the CPPCC to play a more proactive role in the new year so as to better rally people’s support, build consensus, pool wisdom and strength.
As the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) ends in 2025, Xi is pressing his efforts to make strategic determination and pool the wondrous strength of all other Chinese to forge ahead against all odds. tides and build a strong country.
“On the road to Chinese modernization, we will only find a transparent sky and a pleasant breeze, but we will also face violent winds, choppy waters and even damaging storms,” he said.
Xi said that by 2025, efforts are made to go deeper into all areas, follow the opening-up of higher level, and ensure progression and safety insurance, among others.
Xi also urged efforts to put into place more proactive macro policies to promote sustained economic recovery and improvement, continuously enhance people’s living standards, and maintain social harmony and stability.
High-quality fulfillment of the objectives and responsibilities of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) will lay the foundation for the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), the President said.
As a key mechanism for multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the PCC, the CCPPCH has played a primary role in political consultation, the exercise of democratic supervision and the discussion and control of state affairs.