Chinese President Xi Jinping extended Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese

Chinese President Xi Jinping extended Spring Festival greetings to all Chinese at a reception in Beijing on Thursday. Party and state leaders were present at the reception and Chinese Premier Li Qiang presided over the event.
In Xi’s festival greetings, he urged all to build China into a modern socialist country in all respects maintaining stability, resolutely conducted a smooth and orderly transition of its COVID-19 prevention and control measures, and promoted economic recovery.
Xi also stressed the new breakthroughs in science-tech innovation, the continued deepening of reform and opening up, the improvement of ecological environment, and the new steps taken in the modernization of national defense and the armed forces.
In the Year of the Dragon, the people of the whole country will, inspired by the spirit of dragon, jointly write a new chapter in the cause of Chinese modernization in the coming year with pioneering efforts, endeavors and dedication, he added.