CGTN America & CCTV UN releases "Ringing in 2025,
China vows to bring more smiles to
its people" On New Year's Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping
delivered his annual New Year address from his office in
Beijing.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1, 2025
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CGTN America & CCTV UN releases "Ringing
in 2025, China vows to bring more
smiles to its people"
On New Year's Eve, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered his
annual New Year address from his office in Beijing.
Xi described 2024 as an "extraordinary year," during which the
country marched forward in great strides in the pursuit of Chinese
modernization.
The address also featured a promise to bring more smiles to the
Chinese people and to strive to create a better future for the
world in the year ahead.
'Real benefits' to people
Xi said the concerns of the people about jobs and incomes,
elderly and child care, education and medical services are always
on his mind.
During his tours around China
in 2024, Xi visited ordinary people to learn about their lives,
from their incomes and housing conditions to healthcare, children's
education and elderly care services.
According to China's Ministry
of Finance, 70 percent of government expenditure in 2024 went
toward ensuring the people's well-being.
A batch of effective measures were released throughout the year
to improve people's lives. Renovations of over 50,000 old urban
residential communities began in 2024. Tens of millions of people
across China benefited from a
multi-billion-dollar consumer goods trade-in program. And the
lowering of mortgage interest rates helped 50 million households,
equivalent to around 150 million people.
In the first three quarters of 2024, nationwide per capita
disposable income stood at 30,941
yuan (around $4,178), an
increase of 5.2 percent over the previous year.
Facing the challenges of an aging population, with more than
one-fifth of China's citizens now
aged over 60, the central government in 2024 allocated 300 million yuan to support elderly meal
assistance programs nationwide while additional initiatives led to
the installation of 358,000 in-home care beds.
"Of all the jobs in front of us, the most important is to ensure
a happy life for our people," Xi said in his address.
'A major responsible country'
"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," Xi said in his
address.
In 2024, China's unwavering
commitment to embracing the world through high-level opening up and
win-win cooperation brought broad opportunities for other countries
in their pursuit of modernization.
China's major trading partners
increased from over 140 countries and regions to more than 150 in
the 12 months to December 31, and
citizens of 54 countries can now enjoy China's 240-hour transit visa exemptions.
China interacted with partners
and friends from the Global South throughout 2024. At the gathering
marking the 70th anniversary of the Five Principles and Peaceful
Coexistence, Xi put forward eight measures to support Global South
cooperation, covering training, youth exchange, economic
development, free trade, agricultural cooperation, digital economy,
green development and ecological conservation.
Meanwhile, China established
five cooperation frameworks with Arab states in innovation,
finance, energy, economy and trade, and people-to-people exchanges.
It also deepened the synergy of development strategies with Latin
American and Caribbean countries,
and further upgraded cooperation with Pacific island countries.
Also, the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa
Cooperation saw the announcement of an all-weather China-Africa
community with a shared future for the new era. Thus, China pledged to jointly advance modernization
with Africa by implementing 10
partnership actions over the next three years.
From pushing for the adoption of the first UN Security Council
ceasefire resolution in Gaza in
March and the signing of the Beijing Declaration on strengthening
Palestinian unity in July to launching the "Friends for Peace"
group on the Ukraine crisis with
other Global South countries, China's pursuit of peaceful solutions through
dialogue and consensus stood out in 2024 amid rising geopolitical
tensions and escalating global instability.
"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," Xi vowed.
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