Comrades and friends: The Spring Festival of the Guimao Rabbit Year is coming soon. Today, we are gathered here to celebrate the New Year. First of all, on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, I would like to extend to you the best wishes of the holiday! To the people of all ethnic groups in the country, to the compatriots in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan and overseas Chinese! Wish everyone a happy new year! The coming year of Renyin Tiger is an extremely important year in the development history of the Party and the country. In the face of the stormy international environment and the arduous and arduous task of domestic reform, development and stability, the whole party, army and people of all ethnic groups across the country have faced difficulties and worked together to write a new chapter in the construction of socialist modernization with the vigour of leaping, daring to enter the tiger's den, and perseverance. We successfully held the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and established a grand blueprint for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. The whole party, army and people of all ethnic groups in the country set out on a new journey in high spirits, towards a new goal, and set out again! Over the past year, we have fully implemented the new development concept, adhered to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully implemented the requirements of epidemic prevention, economic stability, and development security, accelerated the construction of a new development pattern, strived to promote high-quality development, maintained economic growth, enjoyed a bumper harvest of food, basically stable employment prices, solid livelihood security, and constantly consolidated the results of poverty alleviation, frequent reports of scientific and technological achievements, and continued improvement of the ecological environment, Solid steps have been taken in the modernization of national defense and the armed forces, comprehensive and strict governance of the Party has been advanced in depth, and the overall social situation has remained stable. We adhere to the principle of "people first and life first", constantly optimize epidemic prevention and control measures according to the changes of virus and epidemic prevention situation, maximize the protection of people's life safety and health, and minimize the impact on economic and social life. At present, epidemic prevention is still struggling, and the dawn is ahead. As long as we work together and persevere, we will win the final victory of epidemic prevention. We have successfully hosted the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games, and contributed a simple, safe and wonderful Olympic Games to the world. We have achieved good results in both the hosting and competition. Beijing has become the world's first "Double Olympic City". We wish Hong Kong the 25th anniversary of its return to the motherland and Hong Kong and Macao continued to maintain prosperity and stability. We firmly carry out major struggles against separatism and interference and firmly grasp the initiative of cross-Straits relations. We will vigorously promote the diplomacy of major countries with Chinese characteristics, make more friends and add stability to the volatile international environment. The achievements of this year did not come easily. The Party and the people worked together to work out, work out, and struggle out. Practice has shown that as long as the Party and the people always stand together, want to stand together and work together, no storm can shake our steel will, and no difficulty can stop our sonorous pace. Comrades and friends! 2023 is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress. Hope and challenges coexist. We should adhere to the principle of stability and seek progress while maintaining stability, better coordinate the domestic and international overall situation, better coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, better coordinate development and security, comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, strive to achieve the overall improvement of economic operation, and promote the continuous improvement of people's lives. As long as we have firm confidence and tenacious struggle