国内英语资讯:Xinhua Headlines: President Xi delivers New Year speech rallying nation for great cause_时事

国内英语资讯:Xinhua Headlines: President Xi delivers New Year speech rallying nation for great cause

Xi also extended gratitude to millions of hardworking people, such as deliverymen, sanitation workers and taxi drivers.

"President Xi's New Year speech is very touching and inspiring," said Soinam Yangjen, a 35-year-old village official in Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China.

With over 16 years of experience in poverty alleviation work, she said that through the speech she and her fellow villagers can see a brighter future, "a future that is created by us together."

BETTER WORLD

In 2018, China hosted diplomatic events including the annual Boao Forum for Asia, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Qingdao summit, and the Beijing summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.

China put forward its proposals and made its voice heard, and enlarged its circle of friends in 2018, Xi said.

In a world that is undergoing changes unseen in a century, China will remain confident and resolute in safeguarding its sovereignty and security, and maintain its sincerity and goodwill for safeguarding world peace and promoting common prosperity, he said.

China will actively promote the joint construction of the Belt and Road, continue to promote the building of a community with a shared future for humanity, and work relentlessly for an even more prosperous and beautiful world, he said.

"I think China is demonstrating a greater capacity to perform global leadership roles in an increasingly broad range of fields," said Lucio Blanco Pitlo, a lecturer from the Chinese Studies Program of Philippine Ateneo de Manila University. "I expect this trend to continue in the coming year."