五、持续推进民生改善和社会建设
V. Making Sustained Efforts to Improve Living Standards and Promote Social Development
立国之道，惟在富民。要以增进民生福祉为目的，加快发展社会事业，改革完善收入分配制度，千方百计增加居民收入，促进社会公平正义与和谐进步。
The only way to build a country is to enrich its people. With increasing people’s quality of life as our objective, we will accelerate the development of social programs, reform and improve the income distribution system, do everything possible to increase people’s incomes, and promote social equity, justice, harmony, and progress.
着力促进创业就业。坚持就业优先，以创业带动就业。今年高校毕业生749万人，为历史最高。要加强就业指导和创业教育，落实高校毕业生就业促进计划，鼓励到基层就业。实施好大学生创业引领计划，支持到新兴产业创业。做好结构调整、过剩产能化解中失业人员的再就业工作。统筹农村转移劳动力、城镇困难人员、退役军人就业，实施农民工职业技能提升计划，落实和完善失业保险支持企业稳定就业岗位政策。全面治理拖欠农民工工资问题，健全劳动监察和争议处理机制，让法律成为劳动者权益的守护神。
We will work hard to promote business development and increase employment.
We will continue to give top priority to employment and the creation of jobs by encouraging entrepreneurship. This year, the number of college graduates will reach 7.49 million, a record high. We need to strengthen employment guidance and education on starting up in business; implement the plan to help college graduates find jobs and encourage them to look to the community level to find employment; and carry out the plan to guide university students toward starting their own businesses and support them in creating start-ups in emerging industries.
We will work to help people who have lost their jobs due to structural adjustments or measures to address overcapacity to find new employment, and coordinate efforts to ensure employment can be found for people who move from rural to urban areas to find work, vulnerable urban residents who have difficulty finding jobs, and decommissioned military personnel. We will put into effect the plan on providing vocational training for migrant workers, and implement and improve the unemployment insurance policy on supporting enterprises that keep people in their jobs. We will draw on comprehensive governance to deal with the “missing” or delayed wages of migrant workers, improve the mechanisms for supervising the handling of labor issues and disputes, and ensure the law fully functions as the protector of the rights and interests of anyone in employment.
加强社会保障和增加居民收入。企业退休人员基本养老金标准提高10%。城乡居民基础养老金标准统一由55元提高到70元。推进城镇职工基础养老金全国统筹。降低失业保险、工伤保险等缴费率。完善最低工资标准调整机制。落实机关事业单位养老保险制度改革措施，同步完善工资制度，对基层工作人员给予政策倾斜。在县以下机关建立公务员职务和职级并行制度。加强重特大疾病医疗救助，全面实施临时救助制度，让遇到急难特困的群众求助有门、受助及时。对困境儿童、高龄和失能老人、重度和贫困残疾人等特困群体，健全福利保障制度和服务体系。继续提高城乡低保水平，提升优抚对象抚恤和生活补助标准。提高工资和保障标准等政策的受益面广，各级政府一定要落实到位。民之疾苦，国之要事，我们要竭尽全力，坚决把民生底线兜住兜牢。
We will strengthen social security and increase individual income.
The basic pension benefits for enterprise retirees will be increased by 10%. The monthly basic pension benefits for rural and non-working urban residents will be uniformly raised from 55 yuan to 70 yuan per person. We will work to place the basic pensions of workers in urban areas under unified national management. The premiums will be lowered for insurance schemes such as the unemployment insurance scheme and the workplace injury insurance scheme. We will improve the mechanism for adjusting minimum wages. We will take steps to reform the pension system for employees of Party and government offices and public institutions and at the same time improve their pay systems, and we will make policies weighted toward benefiting government and Party employees at the community level. A system will be instituted under which public servants of Party and government offices at and below the county level can be promoted in terms of both their post and their rank, and are paid accordingly.
We will increase aid for treating major and serious diseases and implement the temporary-assistance scheme nationwide so that people with urgent or special needs will have somewhere to go for support, and will be able to get that support straight away. We will develop sound welfare and service systems for vulnerable groups including children living in difficult circumstances, the very elderly, elderly people with disabilities, people with serious disabilities, and people with disabilities who are living in poverty. We will continue to raise subsistence allowances for rural and urban residents and increase benefits and living allowances for entitled groups. Policies for increasing wages and social security benefits have a bearing on a great number of people; their implementation by governments at all levels must be completely satisfactory. Ensuring people’s wellbeing is a top priority for the government, and we must do all we can to make sure that basic needs are met.
促进教育公平发展和质量提升。教育是今天的事业、明天的希望。要坚持立德树人，增强学生的社会责任感、创新精神、实践能力，培养中国特色社会主义建设者和接班人。深化省级政府教育统筹改革、高等院校综合改革和考试招生制度改革。加快义务教育学校标准化建设，改善薄弱学校和寄宿制学校基本办学条件。落实农民工随迁子女在流入地接受义务教育政策，完善后续升学政策。全面推进现代职业教育体系建设。引导部分地方本科高校向应用型转变，通过对口支援等方式支持中西部高等教育发展，继续提高中西部地区和人口大省高考录取率。建设世界一流大学和一流学科。加强特殊教育、学前教育、继续教育和民族地区各类教育。促进民办教育健康发展。加强教师队伍建设。为切实把教育事业办好，我们要保证投入，花好每一分钱。要畅通农村和贫困地区学子纵向流动的渠道，让每个人都有机会通过教育改变自身命运。
We will promote fair access to and strengthen the quality of education.
Education is an endeavor for today, but a source of hope for tomorrow. We need to foster virtue through education and ensure that students develop a strong sense of social responsibility, innovative thinking, and an ability to put ideas into practice. We should ensure that students strengthen their dedication to socialism with Chinese characteristics. We will deepen the reform to expand the responsibility of provincial-level governments over local education, the comprehensive reform of colleges and universities, as well as the reform of the school examination and enrollment systems.
We will move more quickly to help all schools providing compulsory education to meet standards, and improve basic conditions in boarding schools and schools that are poorly built and operated. We will implement the policy of enabling the children of migrant workers to receive compulsory education in the cities and towns where they and their parents live and improve policies that enable them to continue on into secondary and college education.
We will work to comprehensively promote the development of a modern vocational education system. We will guide a number of local undergraduate institutions to transform themselves into applied colleges. We will support the development of higher education in the central and western regions by offering them assistance through pairing programs, and continue to raise the admission rate for those taking the college entrance exams in the central and western regions and in provinces with larger populations. We will work to develop world-class universities and disciplines.
We will strengthen education for those with special learning needs, preschool education, continuing education, and all types of education in areas with concentrations of ethnic minorities. We will work to promote the healthy development of privately run educational institutions. We will strengthen the workforce of teachers. In order to provide good education, we must guarantee funding and ensure that every yuan is well spent. We should clear any obstructions to upwards mobility for students from rural or poor areas, and ensure that each and every person has the opportunity to change their life through education.
加快健全基本医疗卫生制度。完善城乡居民基本医保，财政补助标准由每人每年320元提高到380元，基本实现居民医疗费用省内直接结算，稳步推行退休人员医疗费用跨省直接结算。全面实施城乡居民大病保险制度。深化基层医疗卫生机构综合改革，加强全科医生制度建设，完善分级诊疗体系。全面推开县级公立医院综合改革，在100个地级以上城市进行公立医院改革试点，破除以药补医，降低虚高药价，合理调整医疗服务价格，通过医保支付等方式平衡费用，努力减轻群众负担。鼓励医生到基层多点执业，发展社会办医。开展省级深化医改综合试点。加快建立医疗纠纷预防调解机制。人均基本公共卫生服务经费补助标准由35元提高到40元，增量全部用于支付村医的基本公共卫生服务，方便几亿农民就地就近看病就医。加强重大疾病防控。积极发展中医药和民族医药事业。推进计划生育服务管理改革。健康是群众的基本需求，我们要不断提高医疗卫生水平，打造健康中国。
We will work more quickly to improve the basic medical and healthcare systems.
We will improve basic medical insurance for rural and non-working urban residents, and increase the annual government subsidy for this insurance from 320 yuan to 380 yuan per person. We will basically complete the task of enabling on-the-spot settlement of medical expenses incurred anywhere within the provincial-level administrative area where one’s insurance is registered, and steadily work toward enabling retirees to have their medical expenses settled on the spot in whichever provincial-level administrative area they are living. We will fully implement the major disease insurance scheme for rural and non-working urban residents.
We will work to deepen the comprehensive reform of community-level medical and healthcare institutions, strengthen the general practitioner system, and improve the system of tiered diagnosis and treatment. We will fully implement the comprehensive reform of county-level public hospitals, and trial public hospital reform in 100 cities at or above the prefecture level. We will put a stop to the practice of charging more for medicines to make up for low prices for medical services, lower extortionate prices on medicines, make appropriate adjustments to medical service prices, and take measures such as reforming medical insurance payouts to control costs of medical services, thereby lightening the burden that medical expenses place on people.
We will encourage doctors to practice in community-level clinics in addition to their regular practice and help the development of nongovernmental hospitals. We will launch comprehensive pilot projects for deepening medical reform at the provincial level. We will move faster in setting up mechanisms for preempting and mediating medical disputes. We will increase the annual subsidy for government expenditures on basic public health services from 35 yuan to 40 yuan per capita, with the entire additional sum to be used for paying for rural doctors to provide basic public health services; this will allow large numbers of rural residents to enjoy better access to local medical services.
We will strengthen the prevention and control of major diseases. We will actively develop traditional Chinese medicine and the traditional medicine of ethnic minorities, and advance the reform of family planning services and the way they are managed. Good health is a basic public necessity, so we must work consistently to raise the standard of medical and healthcare services to create a healthy China.
让人民群众享有更多更好文化发展成果。文化是民族的精神命脉和创造源泉。要践行社会主义核心价值观，弘扬中华优秀传统文化。繁荣发展哲学社会科学，发展文学艺术、新闻出版、广播影视、档案等事业，重视文物、非物质文化遗产保护。提供更多优秀文艺作品，倡导全民阅读，建设学习型社会，提高国民素质。深化文化体制改革，逐步推进基本公共文化服务标准化均等化，扩大公共文化设施免费开放范围，发挥基层综合性文化服务中心作用，促进传统媒体与新兴媒体融合发展。拓展中外人文交流，加强国际传播能力建设。发展全民健身、竞技体育和体育产业，做好2022年冬奥会申办工作。
We will ensure cultural development produces more and greater fruits for people to enjoy.
Culture is the lifeblood of a nation and a source of innovation. We will put into practice core socialist values and promote fine traditional Chinese culture. We will encourage philosophy and the social sciences to flourish and promote the development of literature and art; the press and publishing; radio, television, and film; archiving; and other cultural programs. We will work to protect cultural relics and intangible cultural heritage.
We will ensure that more outstanding works of literature and art are created for the people to enjoy, and encourage a love of reading in all our people, build a learning society, and improve the overall caliber of the population. We will deepen structural reform of the cultural sector. We will make steady progress in providing basic public cultural services in a standard and equitable way, allow free admission to more public cultural facilities, ensure multipurpose cultural service centers play a key role in local communities, and promote the integrated development of traditional and emerging media.
We will expand cultural exchanges with other countries and improve our ability to communicate effectively with international audiences. We will develop public fitness programs, competitive sports, and the sports industry, and work toward putting in a strong bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
加强和创新社会治理。深化社会组织管理制度改革，加快行业协会商会与行政机关脱钩。支持群团组织依法参与社会治理，发展专业社会工作、志愿服务和慈善事业。鼓励社会力量兴办养老设施，发展社区和居家养老。为农村留守儿童、妇女、老人提供关爱服务，建立未成年人社会保护制度，切实保障妇女儿童权益。提高公共突发事件防范处置和防灾救灾减灾能力。做好地震、气象、测绘、地质等工作。深入开展法治宣传教育，加强人民调解工作，完善法律援助制度，落实重大决策社会稳定风险评估机制，有效预防和化解社会矛盾。把信访纳入法治轨道，及时就地解决群众合理诉求。深化平安中国建设，健全立体化社会治安防控体系，依法惩治暴恐、黄赌毒、邪教、走私等违法犯罪行为，发展和规范网络空间，确保国家安全和公共安全。人的生命最为宝贵，要采取更坚决措施，全方位强化安全生产，全过程保障食品药品安全。
We will strengthen and make innovations in social governance.
We will deepen reform of the management of social organizations, and accelerate efforts to untie industry associations and chambers of commerce from any connections they may have with the government. We will support the participation of popular organizations in social governance in accordance with the law. We will develop specialized social work, volunteer services, and charities. We will encourage the opening of nongovernmental elderly care facilities, and develop community-based and at-home elderly care.
We will provide support and services for children, women, and older people who remain in rural areas while their family members move to work in urban areas, establish a system of social protection for minors, and safeguard the rights and interests of women and children. We will improve our ability to prevent and handle public emergencies and to prevent, respond to, and mitigate disasters. We will ensure that work in seismology, meteorology, surveying, mapping, and geology is all carried out to good effect.
We will make intensive efforts to increase public awareness of the rule of law, improve the effectiveness of people’s mediation, and improve the system of legal aid. We will ensure that potential risks which major policy decisions may pose to social stability are fully assessed so as to effectively prevent and resolve social conflicts. We will ensure that the handling of public complaints filed through letters and visits is brought into line with the rule of law, and see to it that all justified complaints and demands are resolved promptly and locally.
We will uphold law and order in China; improve the multidimensional system for crime prevention and control; punish violent terrorism, pornography, gambling, drug abuse and trafficking, cult activity, smuggling, and other illegal activities in accordance with the law; develop and regulate cyberspace; and ensure national and public security. Life is priceless; we must take stronger measures to ensure workplace safety in all fields, and ensure food and medicine safety throughout the production process.
打好节能减排和环境治理攻坚战。环境污染是民生之患、民心之痛，要铁腕治理。今年，二氧化碳排放强度要降低3.1%以上，化学需氧量、氨氮排放都要减少2%左右，二氧化硫、氮氧化物排放要分别减少3%左右和5%左右。深入实施大气污染防治行动计划，实行区域联防联控，加强煤炭清洁高效利用，推动燃煤电厂超低排放改造，促进重点区域煤炭消费零增长。推广新能源汽车，治理机动车尾气，提高油品标准和质量，在重点区域内重点城市全面供应国五标准车用汽柴油。2005年底前注册营运的黄标车今年要全部淘汰。积极应对气候变化，扩大碳排放权交易试点。实施水污染防治行动计划，加强江河湖海水污染、水污染源和农业面源污染治理，实行从水源地到水龙头全过程监管。加强土壤污染防治。推行环境污染第三方治理。做好环保税立法工作。我们一定要严格环境执法，对偷排偷放者出重拳，让其付出沉重的代价；对姑息纵容者严问责，使其受到应有的处罚。
We will fight to win the battle of conserving energy, reducing emissions, and improving the environment.
Environmental pollution is a blight on people’s quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts. We must fight it with all our might. This year, we will cut the intensity of carbon dioxide by at least 3.1%, reduce both chemical oxygen demand and ammonia nitrogen emissions by around 2%, and reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides by around 3% and 5% respectively.
We will fully implement the action plan for preventing and controlling air pollution; carry out coordinated inter-regional prevention and control efforts; make the use of coal cleaner and more efficient, upgrade coal-burning power plants to achieve ultra-low emissions; and strive for zero-growth in the consumption of coal in key areas of the country.
We will promote the use of new-energy vehicles, reduce vehicle exhaust emissions, raise the national production standards for and improve the quality of fuel, and provide motor gasoline and diesel fuel that meets National-V standards to all key cities in key areas. This year we will remove from the roads all high-emission commercial vehicles registered before the end of 2005.
We will actively respond to climate change and expand the trials for trading carbon emissions rights. We will implement the action plan for preventing and controlling water pollution; strengthen control over pollution in rivers, lakes, seas, water pollution sources, and pollution from nonpoint agricultural sources; and ensure the safety of drinking water by carrying out oversight over the whole process, from the source to the tap.
We will strengthen the prevention and control of soil pollution. We will introduce third party governance in the handling of environmental pollution. We will work on the legislation for environmental protection tax. We must strictly enforce environmental laws and regulations; crack down on those guilty of creating illegal emissions and ensure they pay a heavy price for such offenses; and hold those who allow illegal emissions to account, punishing them accordingly.
能源生产和消费革命，关乎发展与民生。要大力发展风电、光伏发电、生物质能，积极发展水电，安全发展核电，开发利用页岩气、煤层气。控制能源消费总量，加强工业、交通、建筑等重点领域节能。积极发展循环经济，大力推进工业废物和生活垃圾资源化利用。我国节能环保市场潜力巨大，要把节能环保产业打造成新兴的支柱产业。
Revolution in energy generation and consumption is vital to any country’s development and to the wellbeing of its people. In China, we will put great weight behind the development of wind power, photovoltaic power, and biomass energy, work actively to develop hydropower, stress safety in developing nuclear power, and exploit and utilize shale gas and coal seam gas.
We will set a ceiling on total energy consumption and strengthen energy conservation in key areas such as manufacturing, transportation, and construction. We will work hard to develop a circular economy and promote the recovery of resources from industrial and household waste. There is enormous potential in China’s market for energy conservation and environmental protection; we will develop the energy conservation and environmental protection industry into a new pillar of the economy.
森林草原、江河湿地是大自然赐予人类的绿色财富，必须倍加珍惜。要推进重大生态工程建设，拓展重点生态功能区，办好生态文明先行示范区，开展国土江河综合整治试点，扩大流域上下游横向补偿机制试点，保护好三江源。扩大天然林保护范围，有序停止天然林商业性采伐。今年新增退耕还林还草66.7万公顷，造林600万公顷。生态环保贵在行动、成在坚持，我们必须紧抓不松劲，一定要实现蓝天常在、绿水长流、永续发展。
Forests, grasslands, rivers, and wetlands are ecological riches and gifts of nature that we must take greater care to cherish. We will carry out major ecological projects; extend key eco-function zones; work to establish zones that demonstrate best practices for promoting a sound ecology; carry out pilot projects to improve the overall condition of rivers; expand the trial of having localities situated on the upper and lower reaches of river basins compensate each other for their impact on water quality; and ensure the sources of the Yangtze, Yellow, and Lancang rivers are effectively preserved. We will expand the areas of natural forests under protection, and work in a planned way to put a stop to commercial logging in these forests. This year, we will return an additional 666,667 hectares of marginal farmland back to forest or grassland, and afforest 6 million more hectares of land.
In ecological protection, progress comes only through action, and success only through persistence. We must take a firm and unrelenting approach in this work, to ensure we always have blue skies, lucid waters, and sustainable development.
六、切实加强政府自身建设
VI. Improving Government
我们要全面推进依法治国，加快建设法治政府、创新政府、廉洁政府和服务型政府，增强政府执行力和公信力，促进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化。
We will fully promote the law-based governance of the country; move more swiftly to build an innovative, clean, service-oriented rule of law government; enhance the government’s administrative capacity and public credibility; and modernize China’s governance system and capacity for governance.
坚持依宪施政，依法行政，把政府工作全面纳入法治轨道。宪法是我们根本的活动准则，各级政府及其工作人员都必须严格遵守。要尊法学法守法用法，依法全面履行职责，所有行政行为都要于法有据，任何政府部门都不得法外设权。深化行政执法体制改革，严格规范公正文明执法，加快推进综合执法，全面落实行政执法责任制。一切违法违规的行为都要追究，一切执法不公正不文明的现象都必须纠正。
We will exercise governance in accordance with the Constitution and other laws and bring all government work in line with the rule of law.
The Constitution is the fundamental guide on which our every action should be based; governments at all levels and their employees must faithfully observe it. We must respect, study, abide by, and apply the law, and fully perform our duties in accordance with it. All government activities must have a legal basis, and no government body may assume any power which is not provided for by law. We will deepen reform of the administrative law enforcement system, enforce the law in a strict, well-regulated, impartial, and appropriate manner, press ahead with coordinated law enforcement, and fully implement the accountability system for administrative law enforcement. We must see to it that all violations of laws and regulations are investigated and prosecuted, and all failures to enforce the law in an impartial and appropriate manner are rectified.
坚持创新管理，强化服务，着力提高政府效能。提供基本公共服务尽可能采用购买服务方式，第三方可提供的事务性管理服务交给市场或社会去办。扎实开展政府协商，积极推进决策科学化民主化，重视发挥智库作用。全面实行政务公开，推广电子政务和网上办事。各级政府要自觉接受同级人大及其常委会的监督，接受人民政协的民主监督，认真听取人大代表、政协委员、民主党派、工商联、无党派人士和各人民团体的意见。我们的所有工作都要全面接受人民的监督，充分体现人民的意愿。
We will develop new ways of conducting regulation, strengthen services, and work to improve government performance.
In basic public services, we need to do all we can to use service procurement as the means of provision, and routine services that can be provided by a third party should be handed over to the market or society. We will work solidly to carry out government consultations. We will work to ensure decisions are made in a sound and democratic way and place importance on the role of think tanks. We will fully put into practice transparency in government affairs and promote the use of e-government and online administration. All levels of governments must actively accept oversight by people’s congresses and their standing committees at their respective administrative level; accept the democratic oversight of CPPCC committees; and earnestly solicit the views of deputies to people’s congresses, members of CPPCC committees, non-CPC parties, federations of industry and commerce, public figures without party affiliation, and people’s organizations. All our work must be subject to the people’s oversight and be done in the way they expect it to be done.
坚持依法用权，倡俭治奢，深入推进党风廉政建设和反腐败工作。认真落实党中央八项规定精神，坚持不懈纠正“四风”，继续严格执行国务院“约法三章”。腐败现象的一个共同特征就是权力寻租，要以权力瘦身为廉政强身，紧紧扎住制度围栏，坚决打掉寻租空间，努力铲除腐败土壤。加强行政监察，发挥审计监督作用，对公共资金、公共资源、国有资产严加监管。始终保持反腐高压态势，对腐败分子零容忍、严查处。对腐败行为，无论出现在领导机关，还是发生在群众身边，都必须严加惩治。
We will exercise power in accordance with the law, encourage thrift and oppose extravagance, and work painstakingly to improve Party conduct, promote integrity, and fight corruption.
We will work conscientiously to implement the CPC Central Committee’s eight-point decision on improving Party and government conduct; work tirelessly to oppose formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance; and continue to strictly enforce the State Council’s three-point decision on curbing government spending. As rent-seeking is a feature common to all types of corruption, we will shed powers to make government cleaner, truss up the institutional fencing, and resolutely eliminate any room for rent-seeking, thus eradicating the breeding grounds of corruption. We will intensify government supervision, make full use of auditing oversight, and strictly monitor public funds, public resources, and state-owned assets. Our tough stance on corruption is here to stay; our tolerance for corruption is zero, and anyone guilty of corruption will be dealt with seriously. We will see to it that every instance of corruption, should it be committed higher up or lower down, is severely punished.
坚持主动作为，狠抓落实，切实做到勤政为民。经济发展进入新常态，精神面貌要有新状态。广大公务员特别是领导干部要始终把为人民谋发展增福祉作为最大责任，始终把现代化建设使命扛在肩上，始终把群众冷暖忧乐放在心头。各级政府要切实履行职责，狠抓贯彻落实，创造性开展工作。完善政绩考核评价机制，对实绩突出的要大力褒奖，对工作不力的要约谈诫勉，对为官不为、懒政怠政的要公开曝光、坚决追究责任。
We will take an active approach to our work, focus on implementation, and work with diligence for the people.
China’s economic development has entered a new normal, meaning we must adopt a new attitude. All public servants, especially officials, should always treat it as their greatest responsibility to promote development that benefits the people, carry the task of modernization on their shoulders, and keep the wellbeing of the people at the forefront of their minds. Governments at all levels must fully perform their functions and responsibilities, ensure thorough implementation, and be creative in their work. We will work to improve the mechanisms for assessing performance, and commend those who perform well, admonish those who do not, and expose and hold to account those who are indolent, sloppy, or neglectful of their duties.
各位代表！
Fellow Deputies,
我国是统一的多民族国家，巩固和发展平等团结互助和谐的社会主义民族关系，是全国各族人民的根本利益和共同责任。要坚持和完善民族区域自治制度，加大对欠发达的民族地区支持力度，扶持人口较少民族发展，推进兴边富民行动，保护和发展少数民族优秀传统文化及特色村镇，促进各民族交往交流交融。组织好西藏自治区成立50周年和新疆维吾尔自治区成立60周年庆祝活动。各族人民和睦相处、和衷共济、和谐发展，中华民族大家庭一定会更加繁荣昌盛、幸福安康。
China is a unified country of many ethnic groups. Working to enhance and develop socialist ethnic relations featuring equality, unity, mutual assistance, and harmony is the joint responsibility and in the fundamental interests of everyone.
We will uphold and improve the system of regional ethnic autonomy, increase support for underdeveloped areas with concentrations of ethnic minorities, and aid the growth of ethnic minorities with smaller populations. We will work to boost development in border regions and improve living standards there. We will see to it that the fine traditional culture of our ethnic minorities and distinctively ethnic villages and towns are preserved and developed, and promote interaction, communication, and integration between ethnic groups.
We will work to successfully mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With people of all our ethnic groups living together as one, sharing in a common cause, and developing together in harmony, the big family of the Chinese nation will enjoy greater prosperity, peace, and happiness.
我们要全面贯彻党的宗教工作基本方针，促进宗教关系和谐，维护宗教界合法权益，发挥宗教界人士和信教群众在促进经济社会发展中的积极作用。
We will fully implement the Party’s basic policy on religion, promote harmonious relations between religions, protect the legitimate rights and interests of the religious community, and ensure that religious leaders and believers play a positive role in promoting economic and social development.
我们要更好发挥海外侨胞和归侨侨眷参与祖国现代化建设、促进祖国和平统一、推进中外交流合作的独特作用，使海内外中华儿女的向心力不断增强。
We need to ensure that overseas Chinese nationals, overseas Chinese nationals who have returned to China, and the relatives of overseas Chinese nationals who themselves live in China can all perform better the unique role they have to play in modernizing China, advancing its peaceful reunification, and promoting exchange and cooperation between China and other countries. We need to strengthen the bonds of attachment and affection of all Chinese, whether at home or overseas, to our motherland.
各位代表！
Fellow Deputies,
建设巩固的国防和强大的军队，是维护国家主权、安全和发展利益的根本保障。要紧紧围绕党在新形势下的强军目标，坚持党对军队绝对领导的根本原则，统筹抓好各方面各领域军事斗争准备，保持边防海防空防安全稳定。全面加强现代后勤建设，加大国防科研和高新技术武器装备建设力度，发展国防科技工业。深化国防和军队改革，提高国防和军队建设法治化水平。加强现代化武装警察力量建设。增强全民国防意识，推进国防动员和后备力量建设。坚持国防建设和经济建设协调发展，促进军民融合深度发展。各级政府要始终如一地关心和支持国防和军队建设，坚定不移地巩固和促进军政军民团结。
Building a solid national defense and strong armed forces is fundamental to safeguarding China’s sovereignty, security, and developmental interests. We must keep to the Party’s goal of strengthening the armed forces under the new conditions, uphold the fundamental principle of the Party’s absolute leadership over the armed forces, strengthen our efforts in all areas in a coordinated way to maintain military preparedness, and ensure border, coastal, and air defense security and stability. We will comprehensively strengthen modern logistics, step up national defense research and development of new- and high-technology weapons and equipment, and develop defense-related science and technology industries.
We will deepen the reform of national defense and the armed forces, and increase the level of rule of law in their development. We will strengthen efforts to modernize the armed police forces. We will raise public awareness of the importance of national defense, and improve mobilization for national defense and the building of reserve forces. We will coordinate national defense development and economic development and deepen the integration of the military and civil sectors. Governments at all levels must always take an active interest in and support the strengthening of our national defense and armed forces, and remain committed to consolidating and increasing the unity between the government and the armed forces and between the people and the armed forces.
各位代表！
Fellow Deputies,
我们将坚定不移地贯彻“一国两制”、“港人治港”、“澳人治澳”、高度自治方针，严格依照宪法和基本法办事。全力支持香港、澳门特别行政区行政长官和政府依法施政，发展经济，改善民生，推进民主，促进和谐。加强内地与港澳各领域交流合作，继续发挥香港、澳门在国家改革开放和现代化建设中的特殊作用。我们坚信，有中央政府一以贯之的大力支持，不断提升港澳自身竞争力，香港、澳门就一定能够保持长期繁荣稳定。
We will steadfastly carry out the principles of “one country, two systems,” the people of Hong Kong governing Hong Kong, the people of Macao governing Macao, and both regions enjoying a high degree of autonomy, and we will strictly comply with the Constitution and the basic laws of these two regions. We will give full support to the chief executives and governments of the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions in governing their regions in accordance with the law, growing the economy, improving people’s standard of living, advancing democracy, and promoting social harmony.
We will ensure that the mainland and the two regions develop more exchange and cooperation in all fields, and that the two regions continue to play their special role in the country’s reform, opening up, and modernization. We are confident that with the central government continuing its strong support for Hong Kong and Macao, and with continuous improvements to their own competitiveness, these two regions will enjoy long-term prosperity and stability.
我们将坚持对台工作大政方针，巩固两岸坚持“九二共识”、反对“台独”的政治基础，保持两岸关系和平发展正确方向。努力推进两岸协商对话，推动经济互利融合，加强基层和青少年交流。依法保护台湾同胞权益，让更多民众分享两岸关系和平发展成果。我们期待两岸同胞不断增进了解互信，密切骨肉亲情，拉近心理距离，为实现祖国和平统一贡献力量。我们坚信，两岸关系和平发展是不可阻挡、不可逆转的历史潮流。
We will adhere to our policies concerning Taiwan and work to strengthen the political foundation of both sides of the Straits, upholding the 1992 Consensus and opposing the independence of Taiwan, and keep cross-Straits relations on the right course in peaceful development. We will strive to make progress in discussion and dialogue between the two sides of the Straits, advance cross-Straits economic integration for mutual benefit, and promote local and youth exchanges. We will protect the rights and interests of our compatriots from Taiwan in accordance with the law, and see that the fruits of peaceful growth of cross-Straits relations benefit more people. We hope that our compatriots on both sides of the Straits will continue to strengthen mutual understanding and trust, deepen their bonds of kinship, bring hearts and minds closer together, and work together to achieve China’s peaceful reunification. We are firmly confident that the peaceful growth of cross-Straits relations is a historical trend that can be neither resisted nor reversed.
各位代表！
Fellow Deputies,
我们将继续高举和平发展合作共赢旗帜，统筹国内国际两个大局，始终不渝走和平发展道路，始终不渝奉行互利共赢开放战略，坚决维护国家主权安全发展利益，维护我国公民和法人海外合法权益，推动建立以合作共赢为核心的新型国际关系。深化与各大国战略对话和务实合作，构建健康稳定的大国关系框架。全面推进周边外交，打造周边命运共同体。加强同发展中国家团结合作，维护共同利益。积极参与国际多边事务，推动国际体系和秩序朝着更加公正合理方向发展。办好纪念中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年相关活动，同国际社会共同维护二战胜利成果和国际公平正义。我们愿与世界各国携手并肩，维护更加持久的和平，建设更加繁荣的世界。
We will continue to hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation, and mutual benefit, and coordinate China’s domestic and international efforts. We remain fully committed to peaceful development and pursuing a win-win strategy of opening up. We will resolutely safeguard China’s sovereignty, security, and developmental interests, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and legal persons overseas. We will help develop a new type of international relations based on mutual benefit and cooperation, work to deepen strategic dialogue and practical cooperation with other major countries, and work to build a sound and stable framework for major-country relations. We will work comprehensively to make progress in neighborhood diplomacy and work to create a community with a common future with our neighbors. We will work to strengthen unity and cooperation with other developing countries and protect our common interests. We will actively participate in international and multilateral affairs and work to make both the international system and the international order more just and equitable. We will host events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the world’s war against fascism and in the Chinese people’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and work together with other members of the international community to uphold the victory of World War II and international justice. China is willing to work hand in hand with all other countries to sustain enduring peace and build a more prosperous world.
各位代表！
Fellow Deputies,
时代赋予中国发展兴盛的历史机遇。让我们紧密团结在以习近平同志为总书记的党中央周围，高举中国特色社会主义伟大旗帜，凝神聚力，开拓创新，努力完成今年经济社会发展目标任务，为实现“两个一百年”奋斗目标、建成富强民主文明和谐的社会主义现代化国家、实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦作出新的更大贡献！
This is an era that has given to China a historic opportunity for development and prosperity. Let us rally closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and work together to break new ground. Let us endeavor to accomplish this year’s objectives and tasks for economic and social development. By doing so, we will make new and greater contributions toward achieving the Two Centenary Goals* and realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(*The Two Centenary Goals are to finish building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the time the CPC celebrates its centenary in 2021; and to turn China into a modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, and harmonious by the time the People’s Republic of China celebrates its centenary in 2049.)
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