Work to realize “Chinese dream” - Xi
CHINA: President Xi Jinping on Saturday encouraged young
Chinese people to dare to dream, work assiduously to fulfill the dreams
and contribute to the revitalization of the nation. He said the young
generation with firm will, strong sense of responsibility and great
professional competence is the hope of realizing the “Chinese dream.”
Xi made the remarks during a discussion with a group of outstanding
young people from all walks of life, including space technology
engineers, agricultural researcher and electric welder, to mark the
country's Youth Day on Saturday.
The “Chinese dream” is a much-discussed concept that has been brought
to prominence by Xi. It is widely understood to mean the renewal of the
Chinese nation.
“Young people should be optimistic and tenacious when facing
adversities,” Xi said, asking them to remain steadfast in their faith,
refine their professional skills, embrace innovation, work hard and
build noble characters.
When visiting the China Academy of Space Technology, where the
meeting was held, Xi said the nation places great hope for the youth in
achieving scientific and technological innovation.
He said young scientists have played a backbone role in China's lunar
probe programme, unmanned and manned space craft and satellite
technology.
“A nation will be prosperous if its young generation is ambitious and
reliable,” said Xi, who is also General Secretary of the Communist Party
of China (CPC) Central Committee.
He expected the young generation to make great accomplishment, and
encouraged them to work at the grassroots and the front line in order to
hone their skills and enhance abilities required in their career.
“Young people should emancipate the mind, advance with the times,
forge ahead and innovate so as to gather experience and make
achievements,” he said.
He asked all levels of Party committees and the government to create
favourable conditions for young people's career development.
This has been the first time for the new Chinese leadership to
elaborate the relationship between the youths and the “Chinese dream.”
In the course of pursuing the road to modernization in China during
the past century, young people have always been an important force of
realizing social transformation and national rejuvenation, said Zheng
Changzhong, a scholar with the School of International Relations and
Public Affairs at Fudan University.
In an information era, China's development needs the youth to be more
united with consensus. The “Chinese dream” concept should be able to
play a role of a banner to inspire young people to strive for a better
life and a stronger nation, Zheng said.
Also on Thursday, Xi told Peking University students to make
contribution “with pioneer spirits.”
The Chinese dream is a dream of the nation and every Chinese
including young people, Xi wrote in a letter to students of archaeology
and museology major whom he met at the university last year.
“Only by integrating individual dreams to the national cause can one
finally make great achievement,” he said.
Xi said he expected young people to “cherish the glorious youth,
strive with pioneer spirit and contribute their wisdom and energy to the
realization of the Chinese dream.”
Echoing Xi's remarks, Vice President Li Yuanchao on Saturday said
young people should never stop learning or making contributions.
He told a group of outstanding young people in Beijing to grasp great
opportunities from China's development to achieve progress in their own
careers.
The Chinese Youth Day was established in December 1949 to commemorate
the beginning of the May 4th Movement in 1919, a student protest that
grew out of dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles settlement. It
is regarded by China as a patriotic movement against imperialism and
feudalism.
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