In 2008, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up.
China embarked on the road of reform and opening up in 1978. Reform and opening up have stimulated the vitality of all walks of life and made China's productive forces develop continuously. One by one, new cities have sprung up. Made and developed major scientific and technological achievements. Large-scale projects have been completed. Super-large enterprises have developed rapidly. China is tall and strong. For more than 20 years, reform and opening up have been the fundamental driving force for social progress and development in China.
Some people in the west think that Deng Xiaoping's proposal of "crossing the river by feeling the stones" seems to be pragmatic, and China's reform and opening up seems to have no clear theoretical guidance, which is completely wrong. Our party attaches great importance to theoretical thinking and is good at summing up practice scientifically. The formation and development of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theory is not achieved overnight, but a process of repeated practice, repeated exploration, continuous summary, gradual formation and development of laws. Scientific Outlook on Development is a concentrated expression of Marxist world outlook and methodology on development, and a scientific summary of the development of China in the past 30 years of reform and opening up. It is not only a full inheritance of existing scientific theories, but also a scientific summary of China's latest development practice, a full prediction of various possibilities for future development, and an absorption and reference of the development experience of mankind and other countries in the world.
In these 30 years, the people of China have made gratifying achievements.
From the Qin Dynasty to the mid-Kloc-0/9th century, Hong Kong was defeated by the Qing Dynasty, and it became the territory of the Central Plains, and it was ceded to Britain in batches to become a colony, thus opening up Hong Kong for port development. 1980, China and Britain implemented the future of Hong Kong. 1984 signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which decided that the people of China and China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong in July 1997. The wanderer who is far away from his mother's arms finally feels the warmth of his mother's arms.
At 22: 00 on July 3, 20001Beijing time, the highly anticipated host city of the 2008 Olympic Games was finally announced at the112nd plenary session of the International Olympic Committee in Moscow. There is only one name in Samaranch's forceful announcement: Beijing! China and Beijing won the right to host the 2008 Olympic Games with their superior advantages and perfect presentation.
On June 5th, 2003, Shenzhou 5 manned spacecraft was successfully launched, and China people's dream of flying for thousands of years finally came true. This launch is an important achievement in the history of human exploration of space. After Russia and the United States, China became the third country in the world to send humans into space.
We have every reason to believe that the people of China, who have become more confident and mature in the reform and opening up, will definitely break through the complicated contradictions in the current social development and make greater achievements in China's modernization drive.