12月26日，240多名冬泳爱好者横渡长江，武汉长江救援志愿队安排了10艘船只、近30名队员全程保护。图为武汉长江救援志愿队发起人、名誉队长俞关荣在观察江面情况。
武汉长江救援志愿队自2010年成立以来，无论是烈日炎炎的盛夏，还是寒风凛冽的严冬，队员都会冒着受伤甚至牺牲的危险勇救江中遇险群众，用生命守望着生命。
目前救援队有30多个支队，队员上千人。身份不同、家境各异的队员们汇聚在一起，轮流值守江边，承担起守望生命的重任。
新华社记者 金立旺 摄
“超级宣纸”诞生记
北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－12月4日，在“超级宣纸”生产车间，工人在进行提帘作业。
近日，位于“中国宣纸之乡”安徽泾县的中国宣纸股份有限公司向宣纸抄制的极限发起挑战，经44名技艺精湛的捞纸师傅携手抄制，一张长达11.4米、宽达3.6米的“超级宣纸”成功诞生。
据悉，宣纸作为传统手工珍品，具有尺寸越大、抄制难度越大、艺术价值越高的特点，而“超级宣纸”成品纸尺寸达11米×3.3米，是真正意义上的传统、手工、二帘水的“超三丈三”宣纸。
新华社记者 刘军喜摄
Yearender: New laws, regulations make difference for China in 2016
BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — Several laws and regulations will take effect in 2016, and change the day-to-day lives of the Chinese people.
From allowing a second child and making it easier for migrant workers to settle down in big cities, to measures that make the stock market more stable and market-oriented, these new rules touch on the deeper problems facing the Chinese and will go down in history.
A FAMILY AFFAIR
From the first day of 2016 the lives of tens of millions of Chinese couples will change when the amended family planning law takes effect,allowing all couples to have two children.
This historic move is part of efforts to balance the population structure.
Chen Li, who works at a public institute in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, has always wanted a second child.
“Thanks to the amended law, my husband and I can plan for another child. My daughter will have a younger sibling, and they can take care of each other,” said Chen, who is in her forties.
China’s family planning policy was first introduced in the 1970s to rein in the surging population. For decades, most urban couples were limited to one child, while rural couples were allowed to have two children if the first was a girl.
The policy gradually relaxed as a number of social problems arose. In 2013, China began to allow couples to have a second child if either parent was an only child.
Guo Zhigang, a sociologist with Peking University, said around 35 percent of the population will be over 60 by 2050. “The new law will help balance the decreasing labor force and aging population,” he added.
CITY LIFE
The new year also brings good news for the 250 million migrant workers in cities, mainly from rural areas. They will be able to apply for residence permits that will give them better access to local public services from Jan. 1.
According to the new regulation, applicants must have lived in the city in which they are applying for residency for at least six months and either have a stable job, stable place to live or be studying.
Those granted the new residence permits will gain access to more basic public services, including nine years of compulsory education for children and basic health care. The new permits will also bring conveniences such as passport issuance and automobile registration.
“For decades, migrants have experienced inconveniences in places they work and live in because they are not locals,” said Wang Han, 31, a software engineer in Beijing. Wang came to Beijing in 2006 from the northeast province of Jilin.
Although Beijing has issued residence permits since 2003 for migrants who have made extraordinary contributions or those who are classified as urgently needed talent, Wang found it difficult to get one. “The regulation will ensure migrants have more equal access to social services received by local ‘hukou’ holders,” said Wang. In China, people with a city’s “hukou” enjoy better educational opportunities, employment support and social welfare.
A STABLE MARKET
China will introduce a circuit breaker next year in addition to the existing daily trading limit for individual stocks to ward off major swings in the country’s stock market.
Market gyrations during the summer this year ended a bull-run of Chinese stocks since late 2014 and wiped out trillions in market value.
The circuit breaker will force trading at exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen to suspend for 15 minutes if the Hushen 300 index falls five percent. Trading will halt for the rest of the day if the index plunges more than seven percent.
There were 25 days when the index fell over five percent between the beginning of 2014 and the end of October this year, including 11 days when the decline exceeded 7 percent, data compiled by Ping An Securities shows.
Meanwhile, new stock offerings on the domestic market will see less bureaucratic meddling as registration-based IPO rules will replace the approval-based listing process. The supply of new stocks will gradually increase and more companies can access fundraising through the stock market under more flexible listing requirements.
Under the registration-based IPO rules, regulators will only need to ensure thorough information disclosure for IPOs and let the market determine the value of new stocks rather than hand-pick companies for listing, a practice that has bred corruption among officials who get to decide on which company goes to market.
IT’S EASY TO BE GREEN
A new law on air pollution control will become effective on the first day of 2016. This new legislation was amended and passed this year amid worsening air pollution across China.
Beijing and its surrounding region in northern China were among the regions worst hit by smog containing hazardous air-borne particles measuring less than 2.5 microns in diameter, known commonly as PM 2.5.
China has made similar legislation in the past, but existing regulation has been seen as increasingly outdated and less effective in reducing pollution.
The new law metes out tougher punishments to industries and seeks to curb air pollution at its root.
In the past, companies and organizations that failed to comply with legal requirements on air pollution faced fines of up to 500,000 yuan (around 80,600 U.S. dollars). That limit is gone in the new law, in the hope that reckless polluters will no longer be able to afford to pollute.
The new law also mandates that gasoline be produced at a higher quality and alternative energy used to reduce coal consumption.
Local governments will also be assessed and monitored over what they do to improve air quality. They have largely ignored environmental protection in the past in their growth-at-all-cost approach to economic development. Enditem
Spotlight: China’s “supply-side structural reform” to solidify bedrock for sustainable development
BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China’s supply-side structural reform holds the key to its structural adjustment in the short term and will solidify the bedrock for the sustainable development of its economy in the long run, overseas experts have observed.
Marking a crucial year for China to comprehensively deepen its reforms, 2015 saw the birth of its development blueprint for the next five years amid a decelerated domestic economy and an unstable global one.
At a recently concluded key economic meeting in Beijing, the Chinese government pledged to take steps to push forward a “supply-side structural reform” in 2016 and beyond to support growth through new demand and productivity.
China’s announcement of a supply-side structural reform came at a critical moment, and is considered as an innovative move to guide the world’s second-largest economy under the “New Normal” and a proactive decision to make it internationally more competitive.
NEW IDEAS, NEW MOMENTUM
The choice of supply-side structural reform indicates that China does not intend to employ traditional stimulus measures, Ulises Granados, professor of international relations at Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology, told Xinhua.
It shows that China is seeking an innovative way to stabilize growth and adjust its economic structure with fresh ideas, thus trying to find a new path for its sustainable economic development, the scholar added.
The Japanese newspaper Nikkei said in a recent report that China’s push for a supply-side structural reform is markedly different from the massive stimulus policies used since the outbreak of the Lehman crisis that triggered the financial earthquake in the global market.
Under the “New Normal,” flooding stimulus measures would no doubt boost economic growth in the short term but not be able to increase potential growth with an ideal rate, while risking huge waste.
The International Monetary Fund said the decline of the global potential growth rate was the major contributor to the sluggish recovery of the world economy.
Figures showed that the average potential growth rate of the emerging economies between 2008 and 2014 was 6.5 percent, 2 percentage points lower than the level before the financial crisis.
As its population dividend dwindles and land resources become more scarce, China’s potential growth rate has also shrunk. However, this leaves room for a supply-side structural reform under the “New Normal” that aspires for more sound growth.
MORE EFFICIENT, BETTER GROWTH
Further shifting China’s focus on the quality instead of quantity of the economy, a supply-side structural reform attaches more importance to structural adjustment and innovation in technology and the system in a bid to make the economic structure more efficient.
The Indian newspaper Economic Times paid attention to China’s reformative move.
“As the effectiveness of boosting growth on the demand side, the government has started to reform the supply-side to make effective use of production factors, including funds, resources, skilled workers, equipment and technologies,” it quoted China Daily as saying in a recent report.
El Pais, a Spanish newspaper, noted that China is attempting to shift its growth model from one dependent on exporting low value-added products and government investment to one driven by domestic demand, innovation and the service industry.
In addition, overseas experts have observed that China’s implementation of the supply-side structural reform also serves its long-term need of sustainable development as well as avoiding the “middle-income trap.”
According to the World Bank standard, China has already become a middle-income country, but a higher ranking requires the Asian nation to register a per capita GDP higher than 12,000 U.S. dollars and escape the so-called “middle-income trap.”
Data revealed that since 1960, out of 101 countries and regions which had managed to be categorized as middle-income economies, only 13 became high-income ones later.
Those that did not reach the high-income category had failed to achieve a technological breakthrough, make economic structural adjustments or innovate their systems. However, a supply-side structural reform may be the answer.
Peter Drysdale, economist and editor at the East Asia Forum at the Australian National University, was confident about China’s progress, describing its transition as “so far so remarkably good.”
Despite the massive size of the country, “China has enjoyed a faster transition to middle income than any country before it,” he said. Enditem
China Focus: Chinese shares end 2015 with one pct fall
BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ended the year of 2015 with a decline of 0.94 percent amid shrinking turnover on December 31, closing at 3,539.18 points on Thursday.
The benchmark index went up 9.41 percent in the whole year of 2015 with the peak point at 5,178.19 points seen on June 12.
In 2015, the Index recorded an over five-percent intraday rise in three trading days and a more than eight-percent fall in five trading days, according to statistics from Shanghai Securities News.
Balance of intraday margin deposits in accounts for securities trading on Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses averaged 1.15 trillion yuan at the beginning of 2015 and it climbed to as high as 3.3 trillion yuan in the middle of the year. By December 30 2015, the accumulated trading turnover on the two bourses totaled 253 trillion yuan, over three times more than that in 2014.
The number of investors traded on Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges jumped from some 71 million yuan at the beginning of the year to 98.62 million yuan by December 30.
At earlier 2015, the balance of margin financing business on the two stock markets stood at some one trillion yuan and soared to a peak of 2.2 trillion yuan within the year. It went back to a bit over one trillion yuan at the end of the year.
China publicizes plan for national standardization system construction
BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China’s cabinet, the State Council, has issued the Development Plan for National Standardization System Construction (2016-2020), according to the official website of Chinese government on Wednesday.
According to the document, China will basically complete the construction of a modern standardization system that supports national governance system and governance capability and has Chinese characteristics by 2020.
The main tasks of the development plan include optimizing standardization system, boosting standard implementation, improving standardization service capability, and strengthening international standardization work.
The development plan also includes specific plans for standardization in seven key areas, including agriculture and the countryside, manufacturing industry, service industry, social affairs, culture, government administration, and ecological protection, energy saving and emission reduction.
The development plan highlights ten key projects, including the agricultural product safety standardization project, the consumer goods safety standardization project, the energy-saving and emission-reduction standardization project, and the next-generation IT standardization project. (Edited by Li Xiaoyu, Lixy@xinhua.org)
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Standardization Administration of China have jointly publicized the Guidance on National Intelligent Manufacturing Standard System Construction (2015), the Xinhua-run cnstock.com reported.
The document clarifies the overall requirement, construction idea and content, and method of organization and implementation for building a national intelligent manufacturing standard system.
According to the document, the national intelligent manufacturing standard system will include five basic standards on foundation, security, management, examination and appraisal and reliability, respectively. Meanwhile, it will include key technological standards on intelligent equipment, intelligent factory, intelligent services, industrial software and big data, and industrial Internet.
The guidance is expected to remove the bottleneck in boosting intelligent manufacturing, which is related to data integration and interconnection. The guidance will be revised in every two or three years. (Edited by Li Xiaoyu, Lixy@xinhua.org)
China to soon surpass U.S. to become top consumer of Chilean wine
SANTIAGO, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — “China will soon surpass the U.S. as the top consumer of Chilean wine,” Claudio Cilveti, general manager of Vinos de Chile, the country’s wine association, told Xinhua on Wednesday.
According to Cilveti, the sales of Chilean wine have grown by 43 percent in the last five years in China and should grow by around 30 percent in 2016, making the country the second-largest customer.
“Chilean wineries are currently seeing sales of 150 million U.S. dollars a year in China, which are set to reach 180-190 million U.S. dollars (in 2016),” he said.
“I believe that our sales to China can still greatly increase as this country is undergoing a cultural change,” said Cilveti.
According to Cilveti, Chinese people consume less than a liter of wine a year per capita, and he is expecting a change with a new economic model which prioritizes consumption in the country,
Cilveti, who was speaking during a conference on the future of Chilean wine, said that Chile is now the third-largest provider of wine to China, following France and Australia.
“This is a great opportunity as Chinese customers like having long-term relationships. Chilean wines have been warmly received and 25 Chilean wineries now have offices in the country,” he said.
Cilveti also attributed this success to the free-trade agreement signed between the two countries in 2006.
Source Xinhua, editor Xuefei Chen Axelsson
China’s railway construction robust despite investment slowdown
BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) — Investment in China’s railways in 2015 is still growing despite an economic slowdown.
China spent 820 billion yuan (126 billion U.S. dollars) on rail projects in 2015 and put more than 9,000 kilometers of new track into operation, meeting its annual targets of 800 billion yuan investment and 8,000 kilometers of new lines, according to China Railway Corporation.
With a newly completed high-speed railway track in the southern Hainan Province, China now has 19,000 kilometers of high-speed rail.
The fast growth of railway construction projects came at a time when the country is enduring continuous deceleration in the growth of fixed-asset investment. In the first 11 months of 2015, fixed-asset investment grew 10.2 percent year on year, slowing from 13.9 percent of growth seen at the beginning of this year. Enditem
China’s foreign debt at RMB9.7318 trln by end Sept., SAFE
BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Greenpost) — China’s foreign debt totaled 9.7318 trillion yuan or 1.5298 trillion U.S. dollars by the end of September, 2015, according to statistics released by State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) Wednesday.
The total comprised 33 percent or 3.2207 trillion yuan (506.3 billion U.S. dollars) of mid- and long-term debt and 67 percent or 6.5111 trillion yuan (1.0235 trillion US dollars) of short term debt, of which 49 percent was trade-related lending.
Categorized by debtors, seven percent of the total foreign debt or 666.5 billion yuan, equal to 104.8 billion U.S. dollars, was borrowed by the public sector; three percent or 259.9 billion yuan was borrowed by the central bank; 46 percent or 4.4758 trillion yuan was borrowed by banks; 31 percent or 3.0239 trillion yuan was borrowed by other departments; the remaining 13 percent or 1.3057 trillion yuan was direct investment or inter-company loans.
By debt forms, the total foreign debt consisted of 25 percent or 2.4367 trillion yuan in loans, 19 percent or 1.8111 trillion yuan in trade credits and advance balances, 25 percent or 2.4687 trillion yuan in currency and deposits, 16 percent or 1.5474 trillion yuan in debt securities, 1 percent or 62.4 billion yuan in SDR, 13 percent or 1.3057 trillion yuan in direct investment or inter-company loans and 1 percent or 99.8 billion yuan in other debts.
By currencies, 47 percent or 4.6161 trillion yuan of the debt was Renminbi-denominated and 53 percent or 5.1157 trillion yuan was foreign-currency-denominated, of which 80 percent was U.S. dollar-denominated, four percent Japanese yen-denominated, and seven percent Euro-denominated. (Edited by Duan Jing, duanjing@xinhua.org)
Source Xinhua, Editor Xuefei Chen Axelsson
China to set up third-generation nuclear power company
BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Greenpost) — Two Chinese nuclear power giants on Wednesday concluded a deal on a joint venture to promote China’s third-generation nuclear reactor design, Hualong One, in overseas markets technologies.
The Hualong international nuclear power technology company in Chinese, has a registered capital of 500 million yuan (77 million U.S. dollars), with China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) each holding 50 percent of shares.
The Hualong One design is the country’s third generation of nuclear reactor design for safer and more efficient operations that will be widely adopted in domestic nuclear power projects.
The two companies began R&D for Hualong One in 2013. In May 2015, construction on a pilot project using Hualong One started in Fuqing, southeast China’s Fujian Province.
An agreement with Argentina was reached in November, guaranteeing the use of it in the fifth nuclear plant in Argentina, a key emerging market for Chinese companies.
In October, CGN and Electricite de France (EDF) signed a strategic investment agreement to build a nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in the southwestern part of Britain. Enditem
Source Xinhua Editor Xuefei Chen Axelsson
China witnesses rural e-commerce boom: AliResearch report
HANGZHOU, Dec. 30 (Greenpost) — China has witnessed a boom of rural e-commerce with 780 villages each having online shopping transactions exceeding 10 million yuan (1.5 million U.S. dollars) in 2015, according to a report released by Alibaba.
AliResearch, the research arm of the Alibaba Group, issued the report on Tuesday saying that this was a surge of 268 percent year on year.
E-commerce prosperous villages are called “Taobao villages,” as business is mainly conducted via Alibaba’s trading platform Taobao. In addition to the transaction volume, a Taobao village should have more than 100 businesses, or at least 10 percent of households involved in e-commerce, according to AliResearch.
The 780 Taobao villages are located in 17 Chinese provinces and regions with Zhejiang, Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces having the most.
AliResearch found that rural e-commerce business clusters are taking shape in these coastal regions, where Taobao villages are modernizing thanks to encouragement from their local governments.
This year also saw the emergence of rural e-commerce in the northeastern, mid- and western provinces and regions of Hunan, Yunnan, Jilin, Liaoning and Ningxia, where Taobao villages appeared for the first time. Among them, 176 Taobao villages are in impoverished regions. Enditem
Editor Xuefei Chen Axelsson
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Freak storm pushes North Pole 50 degrees above normal to melting point
Stockholm, Dec. 31(Greenpost)– A report published on Alaska News Dispatch but from Washington Post said a powerful winter cyclone — the same storm that lead to two tornado outbreaks in the United States and disastrous river flooding — has driven the North Pole to the freezing point this week, 50 degrees above average for this time of year.
From Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, a mind-boggling pressure drop was recorded in Iceland: 54 millibars in just 18 hours. This triples the criteria for “bomb” cyclogenesis, which meteorologists use to describe a rapidly intensifying mid-latitude storm. A “bomb” cyclone is defined as dropping one millibar per hour for 24 hours.
NOAA’s Ocean Prediction Center said the storm’s minimum pressure dropped to 928 millibars around 1 a.m. Eastern time, which likely places it in the top five strongest storms on record in this region.
“According to the center’s records, the all-time strongest storm in this area occurred on Dec. 15, 1986, and that had a minimum central pressure of 900 millibars,” Mashable’s Andrew Freedman reported on Tuesday. “The second-strongest storm occurred in January 1993, with a pressure of 916 millibars.”
As this storm churns north, it’s forcing warm air into the Arctic Circle. Over the North Sea, sustained winds from the south are blasting at 70 mph, and gusting to well above 100 mph, drawing heat from south to north.
Although there are no permanent weather stations at the North Pole (or really anywhere in the Arctic Ocean), we can use weather forecast models, which ingest data from satellites and surrounding surface observations, to estimate conditions at Earth’s most northern location.
On Wednesday morning, temperatures over a vast area just to the east of the North Pole were somewhere between 30 and 35 degrees Fahrenheit, and for at least a brief moment, surpassed the 32-degree threshold at exactly 90 degrees North, according to data from the GFS forecast model.
“Consider the average winter temperature there is around 20 degrees below zero,” wrote the Post’s Jason Samenow on Monday. A temperature around the freezing mark signifies a departure from normal of over 50 degrees, and close to typical mid-summer temperatures in this region.
In other words, the area around the North Pole was about as warm as Chicago on Wednesday, and quite a few degrees warmer than much of the Midwest.
Meanwhile in habitable areas around the North Atlantic, winds are howling and waves are rocking the coastline. In Britain, a week of excessive rainfall has pushed rivers and streams well beyond their banks, stranding vehicles and buckling bridges.
In a blog post on Monday, the U.K. Met office said that December has been a record-breaking month for rainfall in parts of the United Kingdom. A Christmas weekend storm brought up to 8 inches of addition rainfall on saturated soil. The Met Office listed just a small portion of the December records that were set last weekend, in some cases blowing away the previous December records by 10 inches.
President Xi’s greetings in the New Year 2016
By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
Stockholm, Dec. 31(Greenpost)–As a tradition since 2001, Chinese President sends New Year’s greetings to Chinese people home and abroad and friends all over the world through China Radio International, China National Radio and China Central Television Station.
The following is the whole text translated by Xuefei Chen Axelsson, Chief editor of Green Post:
After a couple of hours, the New Year’s bell will toll. We shall say goodbye to 2015 and welcome the first ray of sunshine of 2016. At this moment, I would like to say New Year blessings to you, people of all ethnic groups in the whole nation, to compatriots in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao SAR, to Taiwan compatriots and compatriots overseas, to all friends from all countries and regions in the world! Happy New Year!
No pains, no gains. In 2015, Chinese people made great efforts and harvested a lot. China’s economic growth continutes to rank the first in the world, reforms have begun in almost all fields, reform in judicial system continues to be deepened, the “three stricts and three solids” thematic education has improved the political ecology, the anti-corruption struggle continues to deepen. Through the joint efforts of the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, the 12th five-year plan has successfully ended with a sense of fulfillment in some sense for the vast masses.
This year we held a grand celebration on the 70th anniversary of victory in Chinese people’s anti-Janpanese War and the World’s anti-Fascist war. We held a grand military parade showing the truth that justice shall win, peace shall win and the people will win. We have implemented a comprehensive reform strategy to consolidate our military strength and announced that we shall cut our military personnel by 300 thousand. I have met Mr. Ma Yingjiu in Singapore and shaken hands with him after 66 years, showing that the peaceful development across the Taiwan Strait is the common will of our compatriots on both sides of the strait.
This year Beijing won the rights of hosting the 24th Winter Olympics and the RMB was included in the SDR basket of IMF. The assembling line of C919 airplane developed by Chinese has been in operation. China’s super computer broke the world record and won its sixth consecutive championship. Dark matter exploring Satellite developed by the Chinese scientists has been launched into the universe. Tu Youou became the first Chinese scientist who won the Nobel Prize…these all prove that as long as we are persistent, our dreams will be realised sooner or later.
This year we had joy, but we also had sorrow. The accidents such as the capsized Oriental Star passenger ship in the Yangtze River, the most serious explosion at the Tianjin Port and the landslide in Shenzhen have deprived many compatriots’ lives, let alone the dreadful incident that quite a few compatriots were cruelly killed by terrorists. We missed them, may them rest in peace and may the alive healthy.There are still some difficulties and irritations in the lives of the masses. The party and government are determined to continue to make efforts to guarantee the safety of people’s lives and property, improve people’s living standards and health.
2016 is the first year of the decisive period China enters to build comprehensive wealthy and healthy society. The 5th session of the 18th plenary session of the Communist Party of China has set up clear directions for the development in the following five years. The prospect is encouraging and inspiring, but the happiness doesn’t come from the sky. We should be confident and continue to make efforts in implementing the development concept of being innovative, harmonious, green, open and sharing, pushing forward the structural reform, pushing forward reform and opening up, and doing our best to promote equity and justice and create clean and transparent political environment to make a good start for the decisive period of building comprehensive wealthy healthy society.
To build comprehensive wealth and healthy society, it needs the joint efforts of the 1.3 billion people. It is my great concern to improve the living standards of the hundreds of thousands of poor people in the rural areas.
We have blown up the trumpet to win the campaign of poverty alleviation. All the party members and the people of all ethnic groups should join hands in the battle to ensure that all the poor people should alleviate their poverty as scheduled. We should take care of all the people who have difficulties so that they can feel the warmth from their inner heart.
We only have one earth, and it is the common home of all the people in all nations. This year, Chinese leaders participated in many international conferences, conducted many diplomatic activities, pushed forward some tangible progress in the construction of “one belt and one road”, participated in the United Nations 2030 sustainable development agenda and the Paris Climate Change Conference. The world is large and problems are many. The international community anticipated to hear China’s voice, see China’s solutions and China cannot be absent. We should not only have empathy and be sympathised with those who are suffering from difficulties and war fires, but also take responsibility and action. China will forever open its heart to the world and stretch her hands to those who are in difficulty so that our “friends circle” will be larger and larger.
We sincerely hope that the international community will make joint efforts to have more peace and cooperation, change the antagonism into cooperation, replace the spears with the silk, jointly build a human community jointly owned and shared by the people of all nations.
Thank you all.
新华社12月31日电：国家主席习近平通过中国国际广播电台、中央人民广播电台、中央电视台，发表了二○一六年新年贺词。全文如下：
再过几个小时，新年的钟声就要敲响了。我们即将告别2015年，迎来2016年的第一缕阳光。在这辞旧迎新的时刻，我向全国各族人民，向香港特别行政区同胞和澳门特别行政区同胞，向台湾同胞和海外侨胞，向世界各国和各地区的朋友们，致以新年的祝福！
有付出，就会有收获。2015年，中国人民付出了很多，也收获了很多。我国经济增长继续居于世界前列，改革全面发力，司法体制改革继续深化，“三严三实”专题教育推动了政治生态改善，反腐败斗争深入进行。经过全国各族人民共同努力，“十二五”规划圆满收官，广大人民群众有了更多获得感。
这一年，我们隆重纪念了中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利70周年，举行了盛大阅兵，昭示了正义必胜、和平必胜、人民必胜的真理。我们全面实施改革强军战略，宣布裁军30万。我和马英九先生在新加坡会面，实现了跨越66年时空的握手，表明两岸关系和平发展是两岸同胞的共同心愿。
这一年，北京获得第24届冬奥会举办权，人民币纳入国际货币基金组织特别提款权货币篮子，我国自主研制的C919大型客机总装下线，中国超级计算机破世界纪录蝉联“六连冠”，我国科学家研制的暗物质探测卫星发射升空，屠呦呦成为我国首位获得诺贝尔奖的科学家……这说明，只要坚持，梦想总是可以实现的。
这一年，我们有欣喜，也有悲伤。“东方之星”号客轮翻沉、天津港特别重大火灾爆炸、深圳滑坡等事故造成不少同胞失去了生命，还有我们的同胞被恐怖分子残忍杀害，令人深感痛心。我们怀念他们，愿逝者安息、生者安康！群众的生活中还有一些困难和烦恼。党和政府一定会继续努力，切实保障人民生命财产安全、保障人民生活改善、保障人民身体健康。
2016年是我国进入全面建成小康社会决胜阶段的开局之年。中共十八届五中全会明确了未来5年我国发展的方向。前景令人鼓舞、催人奋进，但幸福不会从天降。我们要树立必胜信念、继续埋头苦干，贯彻创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享的发展理念，着力推进结构性改革，着力推进改革开放，着力促进社会公平正义，着力营造政治上的绿水青山，为全面建成小康社会决胜阶段开好局、起好步。
全面建成小康社会，13亿人要携手前进。让几千万农村贫困人口生活好起来，是我心中的牵挂。我们吹响了打赢扶贫攻坚战的号角，全党全国要勠力同心，着力补齐这块短板，确保农村所有贫困人口如期摆脱贫困。对所有困难群众，我们都要关爱，让他们从内心感受到温暖。
我们只有一个地球，这是各国人民共同的家园。这一年，我国领导人参加了不少国际会议，开展了不少外交活动，推动“一带一路”建设取得实质性进展，参与了联合国2030年可持续发展议程、应对全球气候变化等国际事务。世界那么大，问题那么多，国际社会期待听到中国声音、看到中国方案，中国不能缺席。面对身陷苦难和战火的人们，我们要有悲悯和同情，更要有责任和行动。中国将永远向世界敞开怀抱，也将尽己所能向面临困境的人们伸出援手，让我们的“朋友圈”越来越大。
我衷心希望，国际社会共同努力，多一份平和，多一份合作，变对抗为合作，化干戈为玉帛，共同构建各国人民共有共享的人类命运共同体。
谢谢大家。
习近平发表新年贺辞提到了屠呦呦获诺贝尔奖
北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－2016年的钟声即将敲响，国家主席习近平向全国人民和海外侨胞发表新年贺辞。
他在贺辞中提到了中国在各个方面取得的巨大成就，包括屠呦呦获得诺贝尔医学奖。
同时，习主席也提到了悲伤的事情，东方之星，天津大爆炸和深圳滑坡及中国人被恐怖分子杀害。
他说，前景令人鼓舞、催人奋进，但幸福不会从天降。“我们要树立必胜信念、继续埋头苦干，贯彻创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享的发展理念，着力推进结构性改革，着力推进改革开放，着力促进社会公平正义，着力营造政治上的绿水青山，为全面建成小康社会决胜阶段开好局、起好步”。
他说，人类只有一个地球。“我们只有一个地球，这是各国人民共同的家园。这一年，我国领导人参加了不少国际会议，开展了不少外交活动，推动“一带一路”建设取得实质性进展，参与了联合国2030年可持续发展议程、应对全球气候变化等国际事务。世界那么大，问题那么多，国际社会期待听到中国声音、看到中国方案，中国不能缺席。面对身陷苦难和战火的人们，我们要有悲悯和同情，更要有责任和行动。中国将永远向世界敞开怀抱，也将尽己所能向面临困境的人们伸出援手，让我们的“朋友圈”越来越大。”
但他没有提这让人纠结的雾霾问题。北京在元旦前夕也真是奇迹般地把PM2.5值降到了64. 真是奇迹。上海都190多。他所关心的还是和平与发展，合作消除贫困，
“我衷心希望，国际社会共同努力，多一份平和，多一份合作，变对抗为合作，化干戈为玉帛，共同构建各国人民共有共享的人类命运共同体。”习主席通过中国主流媒体说。