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Jiang delivers New Year Message
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PPRSIDENT Jiang Zemin extended cordial greetings to people of all ethnic groups across the nation, compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, overseas Chinese, and foreign friends worldwide on the eve of the 21st century in his New Year Message televised by China Radio International, Central People's Broadcasting Station and China Central Television yesterday evening.
The common aspiration of all people in the world is to advance the achievements of civilization created by mankind, overcome such problems as war and poverty that perplexed mankind in the 20th century, and promote peace and development to create a beautiful world, Jiang said.
“We hope the new century will be a century in which people of all countries live in peace," Jiang said.
The primary tasks of the Chinese people in the new millennium are to push ahead with the modernization of the country, achieve the reunification of the motherland and safeguard world peace and make simultaneous progress.
Guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory, they will firmly promote the reform and opening-up drive as well as economic construction, firmly implement the principle of “peaceful reunification and one country, two systems", firmly pursue the independent foreign policy of peace, strive for the promotion of the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the thorough reunification of the motherland and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and make new contributions to the mankind.(Xinhua)
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