Fellow Deputies,

Over the past five years, we in governments at all levels faithfully implemented the Party Central Committee’s strategic plans for full and rigorous Party self-governance, launched both initiatives to raise awareness of the need to stay true to the Party’s founding mission and programs to study the Party’s history, and carried forward the great founding spirit of the Party.

We strictly complied with the central Party leadership’s eight-point decision on improving work conduct and kept up our efforts to tackle pointless formalities, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, with emphasis on the first two.

Spending on official overseas visits, vehicles for official use, and official hospitality was slashed.

We resolutely investigated and strictly dealt with instances of constructing government buildings in breach of regulations and cases of tax evasion.

Greater efforts were made to build a government of integrity.

All of us in government have readily placed ourselves under the oversight of the law, supervisory bodies, and the people.

There is no shortcut to achieving economic and social development; only solid work will deliver it.

Over these five years, we followed the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and fully implemented the Party’s basic theory, basic line, and basic policy.

Taking economic development as our central task, we strived to pursue high-quality development, tackled challenges and difficulties head-on, fulfilled our commitments with solid work, and made concerted efforts to promote development.

We took meeting the people’s expectations as the goal of our governance, always kept the people uppermost in our minds, and put their interests above all else.

We fully heeded their views, endeavored to gain a full understanding of their needs, and spared no effort to solve the pressing difficulties and problems that concerned them most.

We adhered to the principle of seeking truth from facts, with full respect for objective laws, and resolutely opposed empty talk and boastfulness, window dressing, vanity projects, and rash and reckless moves.

By carrying out reform and making unremitting efforts, we resolved problems and fostered vitality.

We applauded those who lived up to their responsibilities and held to full account those who were incompetent and indolent.

We respected the pioneering spirit of the people and kept all motivated, thus creating a powerful force for advancing development.

Fellow Deputies,

Over the past five years, we created new ways to improve work related to ethnic groups, religious affairs, and overseas Chinese.

We consolidated and developed socialist ethnic relations featuring equality, unity, mutual assistance, and harmony, with fresh headway achieved in ethnic solidarity and progress.

We implemented the Party’s basic policy on religious affairs and saw that religions in China further adapted to the Chinese context.

We continued to improve our work on overseas Chinese affairs, thus giving full play to the unique strengths and important role of overseas Chinese nationals in China’s modernization drive.

We remained committed to the Party’s absolute leadership over the people’s armed forces.

A series of major achievements were made in national defense and military development.

As a result, a number of significant changes took place in this domain.

The people’s armed forces intensified efforts to enhance their political loyalty, to strengthen themselves through reform, scientific and technological advances, and personnel training, and to practice law-based governance.

They stepped up military training, increased combat preparedness, and became a much more modernized and capable fighting force.

They carried out operations in a firm and flexible way; and they effectively conducted major missions relating to border defense, maritime rights protection, counterterrorism and stability maintenance, disaster rescue and relief, Covid-19 response, peacekeeping, and merchant ship escorting.

Our national defense mobilization capability was boosted.

With these efforts, we fully safeguarded China’s sovereignty, security, and development interests.

We made fresh progress in work related to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.

We exercised effective overall jurisdiction over the two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao in accordance with China’s Constitution and the basic laws of the two regions, formulated and put into effect the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and applied the principle that Hong Kong and Macao should be administered by patriots.

We have ensured that Hong Kong has entered a new stage in which it has restored order and is set to thrive.

We promoted the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and supported Hong Kong and Macao in developing their economies, improving living standards, responding to Covid-19, and maintaining stability.

We implemented the Party’s overall policy for the new era on resolving the Taiwan question and resolutely fought against separatism and countered interference.

We continued efforts to promote the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.

We conducted major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics on all fronts.

President Xi Jinping and other Party and state leaders visited many countries and attended, online or offline, many major diplomatic events, including G20 summits, APEC economic leaders’ meetings, high-level meetings commemorating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, the East Asia leaders’ meetings on cooperation, and China-EU summits.

China also hosted a number of major diplomatic events, including the Qingdao Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the 14th BRICS Summit, the High-Level Dialogue on Global Development, the first and second Belt and Road forums for international cooperation, and the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.

With courage and ability to stand our ground, we resolutely safeguarded China’s sovereignty, security, and development interests.

We actively expanded global partnerships, worked to build an open world economy, safeguarded multilateralism, and promoted the building of a human community with a shared future.

As a responsible major country, China played significant and constructive roles in enhancing international Covid-19 cooperation and addressing global challenges and regional hotspot issues, thus making important contributions to global peace and development.