
Address at the Conference to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up (December 18th 2018) is published by People's Publishing House. On 10.am December 18, 2018, the Conference to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening-up was held at the Great Hall of the People. General Secretary of the Central CPC Committee, President of the PRC and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping made a speech at the conference, stressing that reform and opening-up is a great awakening of the CPC. The pioneering spirit developed in the great cause of reform and opening-up has become a most salient marker of the Chinese national spirit. The achievements made in the four decades have not just fallen in lap, or even been given in charity. Rather, it has become the key for the Party and the people to made great strides to usher in a new era. General Secretary Xi empathized that the effort to build China into a socialist modernized power and realize the great renewal of the Chinese nation is a relay race, where only by taking the baton one generation after another with the pioneers setting a good example for the successors can we work an even greater wonder to amaze the world.