Xi hails steady recovery amid challenges

Xi emphasized that 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and is also a crucial year for achieving the goals and tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) for National Social and Economic Development. He urged efforts to make greater progress in consolidating and enhancing the positive momentum of economic recovery, improving people's well-being, maintaining social stability and advancing the Chinese modernization with concrete steps.

Efforts should be made to make greater progress in building a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, comprehensively deepening reform and opening-up, achieving high-level self-reliance and self-sufficiency in science and technology, and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, he said.

Xi called on the CPPCC members to widely build up consensus and actively provide suggestions and advice for the nation's socioeconomic development.