…Underlines confidence, hard work In 2025 To Rise Above Challenges
By Aidoghie Paulinus
Chinese President Xi Jinping, has called on the Chinese nation to remain confident in the year 2025, saying the world’s second-largest economy can overcome challenges and pressure through hard work.
Xi made the remarks in his 2025 New Year Message delivered through the China Media Group and social media platforms.
Set to fully complete its 14th Five-Year Plan in 2025, Xi said China will implement more proactive and effective policies, prioritize high-quality development, promote greater self-reliance and strength in science and technology, and maintain sound momentum in economic and social development.
The Chinese President further said the Chinese economy “now faces some new conditions, including challenges of uncertainties in the external environment and pressure of transformation from old growth drivers into new ones.”
Xi added: “But we can prevail with our hard work. As always, we grow in the wind and rain, and we get stronger through hard times. We must be confident.”
Xi also vowed to continue the country’s reform drive and recalled a party plenum held in July, 2024 that adopted a massive reform master plan. The document outlined key reform tasks for the next five years and proposed over 300 major reform initiatives.
Xi said: “We will march forward in great strides to advance reform and opening up as the trend of our times. We will surely embrace even broader prospects in pursuing Chinese modernization in the course of reform and opening up.”
Xi added that in a world of both transformation and turbulence, China, as a responsible major country, is actively promoting global governance reform and deepening solidarity and cooperation among the Global South.
Highlighting China’s advances in high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and success in hosting the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, as well as its participation in bilateral and multilateral forums, Xi also said the country has “contributed greatly to the maintenance of world peace and stability.”
According to Xi, “China will work with all countries to promote friendship and cooperation, enhance mutual learning among different cultures, and build a community with a shared future for mankind. We must jointly create a better future for the world.”