The auspicious tiger bid farewell to the old year, and the jade rabbit bid farewell to the new year. The annual Zhejiang Overseas Friendship Association Spring Festival Gala was held in Dongguan on January 8th. Provincial leaders and some principals of Zhejiang Overseas Friendship Association gathered with more than 260 local people and friends from Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan to talk about their hometown friendship and a bright future. Xia Baolong, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, delivered a speech and Gong Zheng, Vice Governor of the province, attended.
Xia Baolong, on behalf of the CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, the provincial government and the provincial CPPCC, extended welcome to all the fellow townsmen and friends who attended the reunion, and extended New Year greetings to the vast number of Zhejiang compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese. He said that in the past year, under the correct leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, the whole province has deeply implemented the “Eighth Five Year Plan” and the “Entrepreneurship and Prosperity, Innovation and Strengthening the Province” overall strategy, solidly promoted the “Six Action Plans for a Comprehensive Moderately Prosperous Society”, successfully completed various tasks of economic and social development, and achieved the successful conclusion of the “Eleventh Five Year Plan”. These achievements are the result of the people of the whole province working together and striving hard, as well as the strong support and generous assistance of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese.
Xia Baolong said that 2011 is the 90th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, the first year of the 12th Five Year Plan, and the key year for Zhejiang to build a well-off society that benefits the people of the province in an all-round way. I hope that fellow villagers and friends will continue to care about and support the construction and development of Zhejiang, and contribute their wisdom and efforts to jointly create a better future for Zhejiang. I hope that our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao, as well as people from all walks of life, can work together and actively contribute to the implementation of the “One Country, Two Systems” policy and the maintenance of unity and stability, promote exchanges, cooperation, and common development between Zhejiang, Hong Kong, and Macao, promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and the great cause of national reunification, and work together to create a bright future for our great motherland.
Che Yueqiao, President of the Hong Kong Zhejiang Association Association, Ho Iat Seng, Member of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and Vice President of the Legislative Council of the Macao Special Administrative Region, and Guo Junci, President of the Association for the Promotion of Peace and Unification across the Taiwan Strait, addressed the meeting. They expressed their willingness to continue working towards achieving the early and complete reunification of the motherland and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, as well as for a better tomorrow in Zhejiang, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
Deputy Director of the Provincial Hong Kong Macao Office, Lu Guohao, and other relevant department heads attended the group worship meeting. The relevant cultural and artistic units of the province presented exciting cultural and artistic programs for the group worship.