Xi urges youths to contribute to Chinese dream
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BEIJING
- President Xi Jinping on Saturday encouraged young Chinese people to dare to
dream, work assiduously to fulfill the dreams and contribute to the
revitalization of the nation.
He said the young generation with firm will, strong sense of
responsibility and great professional competence is the hope of realizing the
"Chinese dream."
Xi made the remarks during a discussion with a group of
outstanding young people from all walks of life, including space technology
engineers, agricultural researcher and electric welder, to mark the country's
Youth Day on Saturday.
The "Chinese dream" is a much-discussed concept
that has been brought to prominence by Xi. It is widely understood to mean the
renewal of the Chinese nation.
"Young people should be optimistic and tenacious when
facing adversities," Xi said, asking them to remain steadfast in their
faith, refine their professional skills, embrace innovation, work hard and
build noble characters.
When visiting the China Academy of Space Technology, where
the meeting was held, Xi said the nation places great hope for the youth in
achieving scientific and technological innovation.
He said young scientists have played a backbone role in China's lunar
probe program, unmanned and manned space craft and satellite technology.
"A nation will be prosperous if its young generation is
ambitious and reliable," said Xi, who is also general secretary of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
He expected the young generation to make great
accomplishment, and encouraged them to work at the grassroots and the front
line in order to hone their skills and enhance abilities required in their
career.
"Young people should emancipate the mind, advance with
the times, forge ahead and innovate so as to gather experience and make
achievements," he said.
He asked all levels of Party committees and the government
to create favorable conditions for young people's career development.
This has been the first time for the new Chinese leadership
to elaborate the relationship between the youths and the "Chinese
dream."
In the course of pursuing the road to modernization in China during the past century, young people have
always been an important force of realizing social transformation and national
rejuvenation, said Zheng Changzhong, a scholar with the School
of International Relations and Public
Affairs at Fudan University.
In an information era, China's development needs the youth
to be more united with consensus. The "Chinese dream" concept should
be able to play a role of a banner to inspire young people to strive for a
better life and a stronger nation, Zheng said.
Also on Thursday, Xi told Peking University
students to make contribution "with pioneer spirits."
The Chinese dream is a dream of the nation and every Chinese
including young people, Xi wrote in a letter to students of archaeology and
museology major whom he met at the university last year.
"Only by integrating individual dreams to the national
cause can one finally make great achievement," he said.
Xi said he expected young people to "cherish the
glorious youth, strive with pioneer spirit and contribute their wisdom and
energy to the realization of the Chinese dream."
Echoing Xi's remarks, Vice President Li Yuanchao on Saturday
said young people should never stop learning or making contributions.
He told a group of outstanding young people in Beijing to grasp great opportunities from China's
development to achieve progress in their own careers.
The Chinese Youth Day was established in December 1949 to
commemorate the beginning of the May 4th Movement in 1919, a student protest
that grew out of dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles settlement. It
is regarded by China
as a patriotic movement against imperialism and feudalism.
My Chinese Dream
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I am a Chinese. I’ve always been making dreams from time to
time. Those dreams made by each average Chinese like me are certainly Chinese
dreams. Dreams vary from person to person, and also from time to time. But in a
certain era, people share the similar dreams.
Here I’d like to share my Chinese dreams with you.
When I was a child in 1970s, poverty kept hovering over my
family, just as it did with other average families in the countryside. The
misfit second-hand clothes, rain-leaking roof of old adobe house became part of
my memory. However, the worse impression is that I was feeling hungry all the
time. Sometimes hunger bit me so severely that I regarded dried sweet potato
slices as delicious snack, the sharp crack of chewing which are still echoing
in my dream. At that time, my dream was getting enough to fill my cooing empty
belly.
In the early years of 1980s, as the reform and opening-up
policy was implemented, the children dream came true. And then, another dream
became clearer and clearer in my mind. I must try my best to escape out of my
impoverished and backward hometown. I worked harder at my study than most of my
classmates, and, after luckily succeeding in the national college entrance
examination, my dream became reality again: after graduation, I became a
citizen working in a city. As the first college graduate out of a remote
village, my success set an example for my folks. They came to realize that
schooling is a good way to change one’s fate. In the following years, there
were less drop-outs and more college graduates in my village, of which I am
proud even today.
Afterwards, I got
accustomed to the life of citizens and I began to dream the same things as
other peers: a comfortable home, my own car and a spacious apartment. Based on
my toil, more than ten years passed, all of these dreams have been fulfilled.
Of course, new dreams will occur to me again and again as time rolls on.
Whatever, I believe most of my dreams will come true sooner or later only if my
motherland keep advancing with current pace.
My Chinese dreams are also ones of other Chinese people. If
every individual’s dreams come true, the dream of the great rejuvenation of the
Chinese nation will sure to come true. "The Chinese dream, after all, is
the dream of the people,” as the newly-elected Chairman Xi Jinping said.