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People's Daily Hails PRC's Founding Anniversary
The People's Daily published an editorial Sunday celebrating the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
The National Day falls on October 1, which, this year, is coincidentally the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional festival for Chinese families to mark their reunion.
In the editorial, the paper congratulates Chinese of all ethnic groups and compatriots living in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, Taiwan, and overseas.
The economy of China, which is carrying out its 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-2005), has continued to grow quickly, despite a slowdown in the world economic growth, the editorial says.
Ever since it adopted the reform and opening-up policy over 20 years ago, China has maintained enormous vitality in development, which has set a solid foundation for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the People's Daily says.
The editorial hails Beijing's success in its bid for the 2008 Olympics and the conclusion of China's negotiations to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), stressing that the road to build socialism with China's own characteristics has become even broader.
It calls for ideological unity within the Communist Party of China and the nation as a whole, noting that without a united goal and a united ideology and concerted actions to realize this goal, it is difficult for a nation to develop and become powerful.
China should concentrate on economic construction and develop advanced productivity, the editorial says. It calls for accelerating the development of the country's underdeveloped western region and deepening the reforms.
Hong Kong and Macao have achieved economic development and social stability after their return to the motherland, which shows that the policy of "peaceful reunification and one country, two systems" is successful, it says.
It urges the Taiwan authorities to be aware of the situation and return to the one-China position. Any attempt to pursue " Taiwan independence" will lead to a dead end, the article stresses.
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