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  President Hu delivers New Year address   (Xinhua)  Updated: 2006-01-01 08:34  
 Chinese President Hu Jintao reiterated China's strong commitment to peaceful 
development in his New Year Address broadcast Saturday to domestic and overseas 
audience via state TV and radio stations. 
 "Here, I would like to reiterate that China's development is peaceful 
development, opening development, cooperative development and harmonious 
development," Hu said. 
 "The Chinese people will develop ourselves by means of striving for a 
peaceful international environment, and promote world peace with our own 
development," Hu said in the address broadcast by China Radio International, 
China National Radio and China Central Television. 
 He said the Chinese people are willing to join with peoples of all nations in 
the world to promote multilateralism, advance the development of economic 
globalization toward common prosperity,advocate democracy in international 
relations, respect the diversity of the world and push for the establishment of 
a new international political and economic order that is just and rational. 
 He pledged that China will adhere to its fundamental national policy of 
opening to the outside world, continue to improve the investment environment and 
open the market, carry out international cooperation in a wide range of areas 
and seek to attain mutual benefits and win-win results with all countries in the 
world. 
 
 
 
 
   President Hu Jintao delivers a New Year 
 message. [Xinhua] |   He mentioned in particular 
that China will do its best to help developing countries accelerate development 
and help people suffering from war, poverty, illnesses and natural calamities in 
the world. 
Fast, sound development in 2006 
 China will strive to achieve fast and sound economic and social development 
and enable all people to enjoy the fruit of reform and development in 2006, 
Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a New Year Address made on Saturday. 
 The country will continue to make the "scientific concept of development" the 
general guideline of the overall economic and social development in 2006, the 
first year of China's 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010). 
 "We'll make efforts to accelerate the pace of reform and opening-up, enhance 
capability in independent innovation, give impetus to the shift in economic 
restructuring and in the mode of economic growth and improve the quality and 
results of economic growth," Hu said in the New Year address, which was 
broadcast on the China Radio International, China National Radio and China 
Central Television on Saturday. 
 In 2005, Hu said, people of all ethnic groups in China have worked with one 
heart and one mind to push forward, in an all round way, economic, political and 
cultural development and the building of a harmonious society. 
 The past year saw relatively faster economic growth, better results, stable 
prices and stronger dynamics. Social undertakings of all sorts made steady 
progress and people's livelihood improvedstep by step, Hu said. 
 Internationally, Hu said, China actively developed friendly cooperative 
relations with all countries in 2005 and made endeavors to the solution of major 
international and regional issues. In so doing, China has played a constructive 
role in safeguarding world peace and promoting common development. 
   
  
  
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