Remarks by Ambassador Li Minggang at the Reception Celebrateing the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China

2024-09-30 17:00

Development Achievements for China and

Shared Opportunities for the World

1st October, 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. I welcome you all for attending today’s reception and celebrate this important event with us.

75 years ago, the Communist Party of China led the Chinese people of all ethnic groups to win national independence and liberation. The Chinese nation embarks on the journey towards a bright future since then.

Over the past 75 years, all Chinese people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, have forged ahead with tenacity and charted a path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, creating miracles of rapid economic growth, long-term social stability and poverty alleviation. Within a few decades, China achieved industrialization. In China, Infrastructure is developing rapidly; mobile payment and online shopping are going popular; new technologies including 5G are prominent. Chinas GDP grew from over 60 billion yuan at the beginning of its founding to 126 trillion yuan. Per capita disposable income rose from 49.7 yuan to 43 thousand yuan. Over 1.4 billion Chinese people are now living in a moderately prosperous society in all respects.  

Today, we are making unswerving efforts to build a great modern socialist country in all respects by pursuing the Chinese path to modernization. The Third Plenary Session of the 20thCentral Committee of the Communist Party of China this year outlined a systematic plan for comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese modernization and proposed over 300 major reform measures in the next 5 years, providing strong driving force and institutional guarantee for the Chinese path to modernization. Our goal is to basically realize socialist modernization by 2035 and build China into a great modern socialist country when China celebrates its centenary in 2049.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends,

China blends in the world and grows stronger as it opens wider to the world. It will also embrace the future and bring more benefits to the globe as it goes deeper in reform and opening-up. China has contributed over 30% of global growth for many years. China has been working together with over 3/4 countries in the world under the high-quality Belt and Road Initiativecooperation and reached fruitful results. The Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative are going solid and deep, promoting the reform and improvement of the global governance system. The vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind is more widely acknowledged across the world.  

As the Chinese saying goes, a single flower does not make spring. A hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to the garden.