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significantly strengthened; Party solidarity and unity have been reinforced, and

our engagement with the people has been greatly improved. Revolutionary
tempering has made our Party stronger and it now radiates with great vitality.
With this, efforts to develop the cause of the Party and the country have gained a
strong political underpinning.
But we must be very clear: There are still many inadequacies in our work and

many difficulties and challenges to face. The main ones are as follows.
Some acute problems caused by unbalanced and inadequate development
await solutions; and the quality and effect of development are not what they
should be. China’s ability to innovate needs to be stronger, the real economy

awaits improvement, and we have a long way to go in protecting the environment.
In work on public wellbeing there are still many areas where we fall short; and
poverty alleviation remains a formidable task. There are still large disparities in
development between rural and urban areas, between regions, and in income
distribution; and our people face many difficulties in employment, education,
healthcare, housing, and elderly care.

The level of civic-mindedness needs further improvement. Social tensions and
problems are intertwined, much remains to be done in seeing the country’s
governance is based in law, and China’s system and capacity for governance need
to be further strengthened. Ideological struggle is still complicated, and in national

security we face new developments. Some reform plans and major policies and
measures need to be better implemented. Many dimensions of Party building
remain weak. These are all problems that demand our full attention to resolve.
The achievements of the past five years are the result of the strong leadership
of the Party Central Committee, and, more importantly, the result of all Party
members and all the Chinese people pulling together in their pursuit. On behalf of

the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, I express our heartfelt
thanks to the people of all ethnic groups, to all other political parties, to people’s
organizations, and patriotic figures from all sectors of society, to our fellow
countrymen and women in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative
regions and in Taiwan, to overseas Chinese, and to all our friends from around the
world who have shown understanding and support for China’s modernization.

Comrades,
In the early days of reform and opening up, the Party made a clarion call for us
to take a path of our own and build socialism with Chinese characteristics. Since

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