The top leader's New Year message and his important speech delivered at the New Year tea party held by the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body, show the central authorities' confidence and determination to overcome various difficulties and to deepen reform to improve people's livelihood and promote high-quality development.

The message demonstrates to the world China's determination to advance Chinese modernization. As a clarion call has been sounded for further deepening all-round reform, China will take great strides to advance reform and opening-up and embrace even broader prospects in pursuing Chinese modernization.

The New Year message covers various fields such as the economy, and contains not only grand ambitions but also concrete and pragmatic goals to improve people's livelihoods. "Of all the jobs in front of us, the most important is to ensure a happy life for our people," the top leader said.

From filling China's bowls with more Chinese grain, to raising the basic pensions, from the expansion of cross-province direct settlement of medical bills, to making it easier for people to seek medical treatment, from lowering mortgage rates for home buyers, to the launch of consumer goods trade-in programs, a series of measures the country has taken over the past year have brought tangible benefits to the Chinese people.

The New Year message also paints a rosy picture for China's development. From the fostering of new quality productive forces to the emergence of new business sectors, from breakthroughs made in integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, quantum communications and many other fields, to the Chang'e 6 lunar probe collecting samples from the far side of the moon, all of these are expected to take China's development to a more solid footing.

Some Western countries have not stopped pointing accusing fingers at China's development policy, but it is undeniable that a series of positive economic policy measures China has implemented in the past year has also benefited the rest of the world.

China's development will not be stopped, and its concept of development for the benefit of its people and the rest of the world will not change. Past difficulties and challenges could not stop China's development; future difficulties and challenges won't either. The visions described in the top leader's New Year message will provide an unending source of momentum for China's development.