Hou Yanqi, Ambassador to Nepal, attends the webinar on “The Results of the Fifth Plenary Session of the XIX Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and China-Nepal Relations”

On December 18, 2020, Hou Yanqi, Ambassador to Nepal, attended the online seminar “Results of the Fifth Plenary Session of the XIX Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and China-Nepal Relations”, organized by the China Research Center , a well-known group of experts in Nepal, and delivered a keynote address. About 30 representatives, including members of the Nepal China Research Center, various former ambassadors, experts, and academics participated in the seminar through video connections.

Ambassador Hou said that the Communist Party of China recently convened the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee. This is a comprehensive and historic gathering at a critical time when China is about to enter a new stage of development and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. An important meeting of sexual importance. The most important result of this meeting was the review and approval of the “Proposals of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the formulation of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Long-Term Goals for 2035”. The long-term goal clarifies the guidelines, main objectives and strategic measures for China’s development during the period of the “XIV Five-Year Plan” (2021-2025). Its basic principles are embodied in three “new” characteristics: entering a new stage of development and applying new developments Concept, builds a new pattern of development.

First, China is about to enter a new stage of development. More than 70 years after the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening-up, the Chinese Communist Party has led the Chinese people to formulate and complete 13 five-year plans, and has achieved world-renowned development achievements in political fields. , economic, social, cultural and others. 850 million people have been lifted out of poverty, contributing more than 70% of the global poverty reduction. This year is the last year of China’s 13th Five-Year Plan. Faced with the complicated international environment and the arduous and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development, and stability, China continues to deepen reforms and broaden openness comprehensively. GDP is expected to exceed 100 trillion RMB, China will eliminate absolute poverty, build a moderately prosperous society comprehensively on schedule, and achieve the goal of the first century. Next year, China will embark on a new journey to achieve the goal of the second centenary. It will basically carry out socialist modernization in 2035 and build a prosperous, democratic, civilized, harmonious and beautiful modern socialist country by the middle of this century.

Second, China will fully implement the new development concept. In the current stage of social development, the main contradiction in Chinese society has been transformed into a contradiction between people’s growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inappropriate development. The Fifth Plenary Session of the XIX Central Committee presented a series of new development concepts based on China’s stage of development. These new ideas take as their theme the promotion of high quality development, making innovation the first engine, coordination as an endogenous characteristic, green as a universal way, openness as the only way and sharing as a fundamental objective. Fully implement the new development concept is to accelerate the construction of a scientific and technological powerhouse, promote coordinated regional development and new urbanization, focus on promoting green development, promote comprehensive deepening of reforms and high-level openness, and focus on people to meet people’s growing needs for a better life For the fundamental purpose, continuously improve people’s sense of profit, happiness and security, and promote the general development of people and the general progress of society .

Third, China will focus on building a new pattern of development. The new development pattern aims to accelerate the construction of a development pattern in which the great national cycle is the main body and the national and international dual cycles promote each other. With a population of 1.4 billion, China is the largest and most potential consumer market in the world, with enormous room for growth. The strengthening of the dominant position of the domestic cycle favors the expansion of the domestic market and the improvement of the resilience of China’s economic development. It also favors the momentum of the international economic cycle and the mutual promotion of national and international cycles. In recent years, China’s domestic demand contribution rate to economic growth has mostly remained above 90% and in some years has exceeded 100%. Therefore, the kinetic energy of the domestic cycle has increased significantly. Therefore, it can be said that building a new development pattern is not a expedient, but a long-term strategy; It is not a passive move, but an active strategy.

It should be noted that China’s emphasis on the state of the main body of the internal cycle is not to engage in a single closed internal cycle, but to open up to the outside world on a larger scale, a broader field and a deeper level on the basis of a good internal cycle, including promotion of trade and A series of measures such as investment liberalization and facilitation, promotion of innovation and business development, promotion of high-quality development of joint construction of the “Strip and the Ruta ”and active participation in the reform of the global economic governance system. As President Xi Jinping pointed out, “China’s door to opening will not close, it will only open wider.” China will uphold the belief in openness, cooperation, unity and win-win situation, unwaveringly expand openness comprehensively, make the Chinese market a world market, a shared market and everyone’s market, promote recovery of the world economy and inject more positive energy into the international community.

Ambassador Hou emphasized that the convening of the Fifth Plenary Session of the XIX Central Committee not only planned the future development of China, but also provided more opportunities for China-Nepal relations and cooperation in various fields. This year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Nepal. Over the past 65 years, the mutual political trust between the two countries has been continuously consolidated, cooperation in various fields has been continuously deepened under the “Belt and Road” framework, and cultural exchanges have been continuously strengthened. In particular, last year the leaders of the two countries held a historic exchange of visits and announced that the China-Nepal relations will become a strategic and cooperative partnership oriented towards development and prosperity from generation to generation. China-Nepal relations have entered a new era. Faced with the challenges posed by the new corona pneumonia epidemic this year, the governments and peoples of the two countries have looked at each other and helped each other in the same boat, establishing a model of international cooperation against the epidemic.

This year is the first year of implementation of the results of President Jinping’s visit to Nepal. The governments and peoples of the two countries have worked hard to overcome the difficulties and achieved important results in areas such as cooperation against the epidemic, interconnection and post-disaster reconstruction. Especially in terms of cooperation against the epidemic, the Nepalese side extended a helping hand to China when the situation of prevention and control of the epidemic in China was more difficult. China also provided support to the Nepalese side in terms of material assistance, commercial acquisitions, expert videoconferences and reopening. Furthermore, the governments of China and Nepal jointly announced the elevation of Mount Everest not so long ago, which is not only an important result of practical cooperation between the two countries, but also has a very positive symbolic meaning, and also marks that the relationship between the two countries has reached a new historical height.

In the new journey of building a modern socialist country in a comprehensive way, China will always adhere to mutual benefit and win-win results with all countries, including Nepal, promote the building of a community with a shared future for humanity and It will contribute to the peace and development of humanity. China will firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core and the international order based on international law, actively participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system, and always be a builder of world peace, contributor to global development and advocate. of the international order.

Ambassador Hou presented the third volume of “Xi Jinping on State Administration” to Nigerian scholars at the end of his speech, saying that the book contains 92 major reports, speeches, talks and speeches by President Xi Jinping from October 2017 to January. of 2020. It covers the important thoughts of President Xi Jinping in various fields, such as the comprehensive deepening of reform and opening up, the improvement and development of the national system and governance system, and the deepening of the promotion of the diplomacy of the main countries with Chinese characteristics. It is an authoritative work that comprehensively reflects Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The Embassy in Nigeria would like to present this book to all academics and friends here to help everyone better understand Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and the opportunities that China’s development brings to the world.

Batrayi, executive chairman of the Nepal China Research Center, Baudell, a former ambassador to China, and Simkada, a former ambassador to Sweden, spoke successively. Nigerian representatives congratulated the successful convening of the Fifth Plenary Session of the XIX Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, congratulated China on the culmination of a well-off society in all respects as scheduled, and achieved the goal of the first centenary, and expressed that the Fifth Plenary Session of the XIX Central Committee is for the international community, especially the relations between Nepal and China. Development offers important opportunities. The Nigerian side greatly appreciates the concepts of comprehensive deepening of reform and opening up, firmly safeguarding multilateralism and building a community with a shared future for humanity presented by the Fifth Plenary Session of the XIX Central Committee. People-to-people connectivity and exchanges have duly contributed to promoting the development of Nepal-China relations to a higher level.