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新华社社评:奋进,中国!奋斗,我们!——2019年新年献词
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新华社北京12月30日电 新华社社评:奋进,中国!奋斗,我们!——2019年新年献词
奋斗的征程,只有进行时没有完成时;正如新年的钟声,永远是又一次出发的号角。迎着2019年的第一缕阳光,我们站在新的起点眺望未来……
风雨兼程中,我们一起走过极不平凡的2018年。在以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚强领导下,亿万中国人民写下了新的奋斗篇章。这是我们顶住压力、实现经济稳中有进的亮丽业绩,是1000多万人脱贫、一百多个贫困县摘帽的喜人硕果,是复兴号奔驰大地、港珠澳大桥跨越沧海、嫦娥四号九天揽月、北斗系统服务全球的壮丽画卷,是改革持续深化、开放不断扩大的铿锵足音,是法治建设不断推进、公平正义阳光洒照大地的生动实践,是“打虎拍蝇”不松劲、从严治党不停步的清风正气,是大江南北一个个勤劳的身影、千门万户里飘出的幸福笑声……
这一年,有阳光灿烂的日子,也有风狂雨疾的时刻,但无论是晴是雨,我们从未懈怠、从未退缩。奋进,是中国的姿态;奋斗,是我们的状态。自1949年以来,自1978年以来,一代代中国人就是这样风雨无阻地砥砺前行,就是这样不可阻挡地奔向民族复兴的伟大梦想。
新的一年,我们迎来新的历史坐标——2019年,是新中国成立70周年,是全面建成小康社会关键之年。以优异成绩迎接共和国的七十华诞,向着中华民族的千年梦想起跳“关键一跃”,我们肩上的担子无比艰巨,我们肩负的使命无比光荣。
新征程上,我们要有志不改、道不变的坚定。今天的中国,稳居世界第二大经济体,日益走近世界舞台中央,在全球治理中发挥越来越重要的作用;今天的中国人民,已经告别几千年来忍饥挨饿、缺吃少穿、生活困顿等梦魇,过上了日益富裕的好日子。这一切,从根本上说,是因为我们党带领人民探索出了中国特色社会主义道路,为当代中国的发展进步筑牢了基石、指明了方向。披荆斩棘成大道,闯关夺隘再出发。面向未来,我们就是要坚定不移走中国特色社会主义道路这条人间正道,就是要矢志不渝朝着民族复兴的宏伟目标开拓进取,把一代代人为之奋斗的伟大事业不断推向前进。
新征程上,我们要有打硬仗、闯难关的坚韧。行百里者半九十。我们今天所处的,正是船到中流浪更急、人到半山路更陡的时候,是愈进愈难而又不进则退的时候。全面建成小康社会,收官的任务艰巨繁重;打赢三大攻坚战,还有不少硬骨头要啃、重点战役要打;推进高质量发展,破除壁垒、释放活力、转型升级,每一步都不容易;保障和改善民生,促进社会公平正义,面临人民不断增长的新需求、新期待;世界处于百年未有之大变局,中国号巨轮必然要经受国际风云变幻的洗礼。破解前进中的问题,除了深化改革、扩大开放,别无他途。林林总总的“问题清单”,就是新时代改革开放的实践所向。只要我们积极应变、主动求变,将改革开放进行到底,就没有迈不过去的坎,就一定能化危为机,在艰苦磨砺中创造让世界刮目相看的新的更大奇迹。
新征程上,我们要有敢担当、善作为的干劲。我们取得的一切成就,不是天上掉下来的,更不是别人恩赐施舍的,而是亿万人民一个汗珠子摔八瓣干出来的。因为奋斗,我们用几十年时间走完了发达国家几百年走过的工业化历程,将无数不可能变成可能。奋斗,是解码中国奇迹的钥匙,也是通往伟大梦想的阶梯。向着“两个一百年”奋斗目标进发,我们的国家要实现更大发展,人民要过上更好生活,更加需要拿出敢为人先的闯劲、一往无前的拼劲、久久为功的韧劲,咬定目标不放松,脚踏实地向前进。
新时代属于每一个奋斗者。无论你是田野里辛勤耕作的农民,还是流水线上忙碌的工人,无论你是奋战在脱贫攻坚一线的党员干部,还是坚守在实验室的科研人员,无论你是怀揣“小目标”的创业者,还是日夜为生活奔波的工薪族……每个人都是这个伟大时代不可或缺的主角。每一滴汗水,都会为梦想之花注入生机;每一次拼搏,都将为共和国基业增添新的光华。
梦想,在我们心中燃烧;未来,在我们手中升腾。在这个千帆竞发、百舸争流的时代,中国人民为民族复兴积聚的洪荒伟力已经充分爆发出来。
奋进,为了伟大的祖国!奋斗,为了美好的明天!


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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 30th Xinhua News Agency: Endeavour, China! Struggle, we! ——2019 New Year’s Message

The journey of struggle is only completed when it is not completed; just like the bell of the New Year, it is always the horn of another departure. Facing the first sunshine of 2019, we stand at a new starting point and look to the future...

In the wind and rain, we walked together through the extraordinary 2018. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, hundreds of millions of Chinese people have written a new chapter of struggle. This is the bright performance that we have withstood the pressure and achieved economic stability. It is the glorious result of more than 10 million people getting rid of poverty and over 100 poverty-stricken counties. It is the revival of the Mercedes-Benz land, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge across the Bohai Sea, and the 嫦娥The magnificent picture of serving the world on the 4th and 9th days and the Beidou system serving the whole world is a full-fledged sound of continuous deepening of reform and opening up. It is a vivid practice of the continuous advancement of the rule of law, fair and just sunshine, and the "fighting of tigers and flies". Song Jin, the strict blessing of the party that strictly controls the party, is a hard-working figure in the north and south of the river, and a happy laughter floating in thousands of households...

This year, there are sunny days and moments of wind and rain, but whether it is sunny or rain, we have never slacked off and never retreated. Endeavor is China's attitude; struggle is our state. Since 1949, since 1978, generations of Chinese people have been so hurried in the wind and rain, it is such an unstoppable rush to the great dream of national rejuvenation.

In the new year, we are welcoming new historical coordinates - 2019, the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China, and a crucial year for building a well-off society in an all-round way. We will welcome the 70th birthday of the Republic with outstanding achievements and take the "key leap" to the Chinese nation's millennium dream. The burden on our shoulders is extremely difficult, and our mission is extremely glorious.

On the new journey, we must be determined to be unchanging and unchanging. Today's China, the world's second largest economy, is increasingly approaching the center of the world stage and playing an increasingly important role in global governance. Today's Chinese people have already bid farewell to thousands of years of starvation and lack of food. Nightmare, such as wearing less, living in distress, and living a better and more prosperous day. All of this, fundamentally speaking, is because our party has led the people to explore the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and has laid a solid foundation for the development and progress of contemporary China and pointed out the direction. The thorns and thorns form a avenue, and the Shaoguan smashes and then sets off. Facing the future, we must be firmly committed to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We must be determined to forge ahead in the grand goal of national rejuvenation, and continue to push forward the great cause that has been fought for generations.

On the new journey, we must have the toughness of hard work and hardship. Barry is only half of 90. What we are in today is when the ship is more turbulent, and when people are halfway up the mountain, the time is getting harder and harder. Building a well-off society in an all-round way, the task of ending is arduous and arduous; winning three major battles, there are still many hard bones to fight, key battles to fight; promoting high-quality development, breaking down barriers, releasing vitality, transforming and upgrading, each step is not easy Safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, promoting social fairness and justice, facing the people's growing new demands and new expectations; the world is in a state of great change in the past 100 years, and the China's huge ship is bound to withstand the baptism of international changes. In order to solve the problems in the advancement, there is no other way than to deepen reform and expand openness. The list of "problems" is the practice of reform and opening up in the new era. As long as we actively respond and actively seek change, we will carry out reform and opening up to the end, and we will not be able to turn the tide into a hurdle. We will certainly turn crises into opportunities and create new and greater miracles that will make the world look at each other in arduous efforts.

On the new journey, we must have the enthusiasm to take responsibility and be good. All the achievements we have made are not falling from the sky, nor are they gifted by others, but hundreds of millions of people have made a sweat. Because of the struggle, we have spent decades to complete the industrialization process that the developed countries have gone through for hundreds of years, and it has become impossible. Struggle is the key to decoding Chinese miracles and the ladder to great dreams. Towards the goal of "two hundred years", our country must achieve greater development, the people must live a better life, and more need to come up with the courage to be the first to be the first, the hard work for the past, the tenacity for a long time, The target is not relaxed, and the foot is moving forward.

The new era belongs to every struggler. Whether you are a farmer who is working hard in the fields, or a busy worker on the assembly line, whether you are a party member cadre who fights in poverty, or a researcher who sticks to the laboratory, whether you are an entrepreneur with a "small goal", It is also a wage earner who runs around for the day and night... Everyone is an indispensable protagonist of this great era. Every drop of sweat will inject vitality into the flower of dreams; every struggle will add a new brilliance to the foundation of the Republic.

Dreams, burning in our hearts; the future, rising in our hands. In this era of thousands of sails and hundreds of battles, the Chinese people’s glory for the national rejuvenation has fully erupted.

Endeavor, for the great motherland! Struggle for a better tomorrow!
 

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Yes propaganda is fact to the ah tiongs and their commie collaborators

Xi Jinping's turbulent year marked by trade wars, detention camps and an economic slow down
By China correspondent Bill Birtles
Posted earlier today at 4:27am

PHOTO: Chinese President Xi Jinping has ended the year with a number of international controversies. (AP: Ng Han Guan)
RELATED STORY: Closed court, security and fake TV crews for trial of Chinese human rights lawyer
RELATED STORY: Huawei lashes out at Australia and others for 'malicious' and 'unfair' treatment
RELATED STORY: Looking back on a rollercoaster year of relations between Australia and China
In the grand narrative of China's rise, it's easy to ascribe a type of exceptionalism to the China model that renders normal standards for political analysis unsuitable.

Key points:
  • Xi Jinping has had a turbulent year domestically and internationally
  • Foreign nations are still unclear about Beijing's intentions
  • 2019 could be another difficult year for Beijing if its economy continues to slow down


After all, the free media, opposition parties and civil society groups that highlight the shortcomings of democratic leaders elsewhere are missing from the day-to-day coverage in China.

But if you try to judge President Xi Jinping's performance over the past 12 months by the standards of any other country, 2018 was a troubling year.

China in Focus

The rise of China has everyone talking. In a special series, RN examines Australia's relationship to China, and its rising prominence in global affairs.


It started so well for the man dubbed China's "chairman of everything", as he managed to contain signs of discontent among his Communist Party colleagues when changing the constitution to allow him to stay on as president indefinitely.

Even in a one-party state, controversial motions usually receive dozens of dissenting votes among the 3,000 delegates at the annual March meeting — sometimes even hundreds — but Mr Xi's power is such that the motion sailed through with just two dissenting votes.

And no, we don't know who those two were.

Chinese liberals were generally horrified but the world's most sophisticated censorship and state security apparatus ensured their voices were muffled.

State media gushed how the change would bring stability, but it predictably brought international headlines about China returning to the strongman era at a time when the world needed reassuring about Beijing's intentions.

PHOTO: Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have been at odds over their countries' ongoing trade war. (AP: Andrew Harnik)


Then there is the trade war.

From a nationalist Chinese view you could see it as strong leadership that Xi Jinping has made minimal concessions to Donald Trump in persisting with China's higher tariffs, restrictive investment environment and subsidised state-led growth model.

But Mr Xi's efforts to maintain a protectionist-heavy domestic economy while telling the world that China is a champion of free trade isn't going well.

The European Business Chamber, representing industrial giants that have transferred vital technological know how to China over the past 40 years of opening up, issued a statement in November describing yet more promises to "open up" as "constant repetition, without sufficient concrete measures or timelines being introduced".

A pre-Christmas proposal to outlaw forced transfers of technology was greeted with scepticism among the foreign business community here.

End-game for Uyghurs still unclear
PHOTO: Satellite imagery captured over a remote and highly volatile region of western China lifts the lid on the size and spread of internment camps. (ABC News/Google Earth/Digital Globe)


And then there are the "vocational training centres".

For the first half of the year, Chinese officials were ordered to simply reject Western media reports of mass incarceration of ethnic minority Muslims in the country's far west.

By the end of the year, Chinese media outlets had changed tune, claiming the policy has brought an end to the sporadic terror attacks that used to happen and is an exemplary model of human rights.

But UN and Western media scrutiny aside, the year ended with Islamic groups in Turkey and Indonesia trying to pressure their own governments to raise concerns with China, something so far majority-Muslim nations have largely avoided.

Why is Huawei so controversial?

The dramatic arrest in Canada of Huawei's chief financial officer for possible extradition to the US shocked many. But what exactly is Huawei and why does it seem like it's continually being targeted by foreign governments?


The end game for the estimated hundreds of thousands of detainees is far from clear — they reportedly will be released after sufficiently completing training programs — and it's likely Mr Xi will have to contend with further concern from the Muslim world that previously wasn't a big issue in Chinese diplomacy.

China also ends the year in a heated spat with Canada, and with a growing backlash in the West to the country's flagship tech company Huawei over spying concerns.

That's not to say there hasn't been good moments for the Chinese President.

His pressure campaign on independently-run Taiwan saw more diplomatic allies of the democratic island flip to recognising the People's Republic, and Beijing was thrilled when Taiwanese voters overwhelmingly rejected the independence-leaning incumbents at the mid-term elections.

Distrust of economic figures
PHOTO: President Xi Jinping sits alongside African leaders at the 2018 FOCAC Beijing summit. (Twitter: PresidencyZA)


The sight of more than 40 African heads of state in the Chinese capital in September for a major summit also reaffirmed China's political grip on the continent.

Overall though, it's the domestic economy that has defined the rise of modern China, and if you believe the official figures, it only slowed a little this year.

But one liberal economist believes China's real growth rate is less than a third of the official figure, and while few support that view, there are ample signs that things are not chugging along as fast as China's Government would have us believe.

China's questionable numbers

Why does China even bother producing GDP numbers that few economists see as credible, asks Stephen Letts.


Censorship guidelines discouraging talk of bad economic news, local officials in China's manufacturing heartland withholding economic data and reports of factory workers being put on holiday leave earlier than normal.

Diminishing returns from China's debt-fuelled growth model more than the US trade spat is causing the slowdown, which has long been on the horizon.

But Xi Jinping, like his predecessors, takes every opportunity to lavish credit on the Communist Party for China's economic rise.

If the slowdown worsens in 2019 as many predict, it'll be difficult for the Party and its leader not to wear the blame.
 

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Yes propaganda is fact to the ah tiongs and their commie collaborators

Xi Jinping's turbulent year marked by trade wars, detention camps and an economic slow down
By China correspondent Bill Birtles
Posted earlier today at 4:27am

PHOTO: Chinese President Xi Jinping has ended the year with a number of international controversies. (AP: Ng Han Guan)
RELATED STORY: Closed court, security and fake TV crews for trial of Chinese human rights lawyer
RELATED STORY: Huawei lashes out at Australia and others for 'malicious' and 'unfair' treatment
RELATED STORY: Looking back on a rollercoaster year of relations between Australia and China
In the grand narrative of China's rise, it's easy to ascribe a type of exceptionalism to the China model that renders normal standards for political analysis unsuitable.

Key points:
  • Xi Jinping has had a turbulent year domestically and internationally
  • Foreign nations are still unclear about Beijing's intentions
  • 2019 could be another difficult year for Beijing if its economy continues to slow down


After all, the free media, opposition parties and civil society groups that highlight the shortcomings of democratic leaders elsewhere are missing from the day-to-day coverage in China.

But if you try to judge President Xi Jinping's performance over the past 12 months by the standards of any other country, 2018 was a troubling year.

China in Focus

The rise of China has everyone talking. In a special series, RN examines Australia's relationship to China, and its rising prominence in global affairs.



It started so well for the man dubbed China's "chairman of everything", as he managed to contain signs of discontent among his Communist Party colleagues when changing the constitution to allow him to stay on as president indefinitely.

Even in a one-party state, controversial motions usually receive dozens of dissenting votes among the 3,000 delegates at the annual March meeting — sometimes even hundreds — but Mr Xi's power is such that the motion sailed through with just two dissenting votes.

And no, we don't know who those two were.

Chinese liberals were generally horrified but the world's most sophisticated censorship and state security apparatus ensured their voices were muffled.

State media gushed how the change would bring stability, but it predictably brought international headlines about China returning to the strongman era at a time when the world needed reassuring about Beijing's intentions.

PHOTO: Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have been at odds over their countries' ongoing trade war. (AP: Andrew Harnik)


Then there is the trade war.

From a nationalist Chinese view you could see it as strong leadership that Xi Jinping has made minimal concessions to Donald Trump in persisting with China's higher tariffs, restrictive investment environment and subsidised state-led growth model.

But Mr Xi's efforts to maintain a protectionist-heavy domestic economy while telling the world that China is a champion of free trade isn't going well.

The European Business Chamber, representing industrial giants that have transferred vital technological know how to China over the past 40 years of opening up, issued a statement in November describing yet more promises to "open up" as "constant repetition, without sufficient concrete measures or timelines being introduced".

A pre-Christmas proposal to outlaw forced transfers of technology was greeted with scepticism among the foreign business community here.

End-game for Uyghurs still unclear
PHOTO: Satellite imagery captured over a remote and highly volatile region of western China lifts the lid on the size and spread of internment camps. (ABC News/Google Earth/Digital Globe)


And then there are the "vocational training centres".

For the first half of the year, Chinese officials were ordered to simply reject Western media reports of mass incarceration of ethnic minority Muslims in the country's far west.

By the end of the year, Chinese media outlets had changed tune, claiming the policy has brought an end to the sporadic terror attacks that used to happen and is an exemplary model of human rights.

But UN and Western media scrutiny aside, the year ended with Islamic groups in Turkey and Indonesia trying to pressure their own governments to raise concerns with China, something so far majority-Muslim nations have largely avoided.

Why is Huawei so controversial?

The dramatic arrest in Canada of Huawei's chief financial officer for possible extradition to the US shocked many. But what exactly is Huawei and why does it seem like it's continually being targeted by foreign governments?



The end game for the estimated hundreds of thousands of detainees is far from clear — they reportedly will be released after sufficiently completing training programs — and it's likely Mr Xi will have to contend with further concern from the Muslim world that previously wasn't a big issue in Chinese diplomacy.

China also ends the year in a heated spat with Canada, and with a growing backlash in the West to the country's flagship tech company Huawei over spying concerns.

That's not to say there hasn't been good moments for the Chinese President.

His pressure campaign on independently-run Taiwan saw more diplomatic allies of the democratic island flip to recognising the People's Republic, and Beijing was thrilled when Taiwanese voters overwhelmingly rejected the independence-leaning incumbents at the mid-term elections.

Distrust of economic figures
PHOTO: President Xi Jinping sits alongside African leaders at the 2018 FOCAC Beijing summit. (Twitter: PresidencyZA)


The sight of more than 40 African heads of state in the Chinese capital in September for a major summit also reaffirmed China's political grip on the continent.

Overall though, it's the domestic economy that has defined the rise of modern China, and if you believe the official figures, it only slowed a little this year.

But one liberal economist believes China's real growth rate is less than a third of the official figure, and while few support that view, there are ample signs that things are not chugging along as fast as China's Government would have us believe.

China's questionable numbers

Why does China even bother producing GDP numbers that few economists see as credible, asks Stephen Letts.



Censorship guidelines discouraging talk of bad economic news, local officials in China's manufacturing heartland withholding economic data and reports of factory workers being put on holiday leave earlier than normal.

Diminishing returns from China's debt-fuelled growth model more than the US trade spat is causing the slowdown, which has long been on the horizon.

But Xi Jinping, like his predecessors, takes every opportunity to lavish credit on the Communist Party for China's economic rise.

If the slowdown worsens in 2019 as many predict, it'll be difficult for the Party and its leader not to wear the blame.


Chinese had been to kind and too civilized today, so far, but fortunately they are learning fast and resuming barbarism already. Ang Moh were lucky because China was full of idea of peacefully preserving the USA and treated it like a (poor and world record owing) friend and customer. This idea is TOTALLY WRONG and must be CORRECTED ASAP. In Chinese history, Qin 秦 became sole existence and strong by ELIMINATION OF ALL THE SIX WEAKER POWERS.



China ought to ELIMINATE ALL OF THE G7 ASAP. And exactly contrary to Geneva Convention, the Chinese must ELIMINATE THEIR POPULATION, RESET THEIR NUMBERS TO ZERO, this is because only the dead who are not consuming resources are truly innocent, all the rest are not. Should eliminate them and take the remaining resources, not trade resources with them for monies (which they owe too much) Not Supplying ANYTHING to them! Don't lend them a single cent. Otherwise 1.4 billion Chinese will join the Total Extinction Suicide and disappear with them together. No exception at all.
 

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Chinese had been to kind and too civilized today, so far, but fortunately they are learning fast and resuming barbarism already. Ang Moh were lucky because China was full of idea of peacefully preserving the USA and treated it like a (poor and world record owing) friend and customer. This idea is TOTALLY WRONG and must be CORRECTED ASAP. In Chinese history, Qin 秦 became sole existence and strong by ELIMINATION OF ALL THE SIX WEAKER POWERS.



China ought to ELIMINATE ALL OF THE G7 ASAP. And exactly contrary to Geneva Convention, the Chinese must ELIMINATE THEIR POPULATION, RESET THEIR NUMBERS TO ZERO, this is because only the dead who are not consuming resources are truly innocent, all the rest are not. Should eliminate them and take the remaining resources, not trade resources with them for monies (which they owe too much) Not Supplying ANYTHING to them! Don't lend them a single cent. Otherwise 1.4 billion Chinese will join the Total Extinction Suicide and disappear with them together. No exception at all.
Yes ah tiong land soo good n benevolent...wat a load of crock
 

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ANALYSIS BY CHINA CORRESPONDENT BILL BIRTLESUPDATED 45 MINUTES AGO
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has ended the year with a number of international controversies.
AP: NG HAN GUAN
In the grand narrative of China's rise, it's easy to ascribe a type of exceptionalism to the China model that renders normal standards for political analysis unsuitable.
Key points:
  • Xi Jinping has had a turbulent year domestically and internationally
  • Foreign nations are still unclear about Beijing's intentions
  • 2019 could be another difficult year for Beijing if its economy continues to slow down
After all, the free media, opposition parties and civil society groups that highlight the shortcomings of democratic leaders elsewhere are missing from the day-to-day coverage in China.
But if you try to judge President Xi Jinping's performance over the past 12 months by the standards of any other country, 2018 was a troubling year.
China in Focus

The rise of China has everyone talking. In a special series, RN examines Australia's relationship to China, and its rising prominence in global affairs.
It started so well for the man dubbed China's "chairman of everything", as he managed to contain signs of discontent among his Communist Party colleagues when changing the constitution to allow him to stay on as president indefinitely.
Even in a one-party state, controversial motions usually receive dozens of dissenting votes among the 3,000 delegates at the annual March meeting — sometimes even hundreds — but Mr Xi's power is such that the motion sailed through with just two dissenting votes.
And no, we don't know who those two were.
Chinese liberals were generally horrified but the world's most sophisticated censorship and state security apparatus ensured their voices were muffled.
State media gushed how the change would bring stability, but it predictably brought international headlines about China returning to the strongman era at a time when the world needed reassuring about Beijing's intentions.

PHOTO Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have been at odds over their countries' ongoing trade war.
AP: ANDREW HARNIK

Then there is the trade war.
From a nationalist Chinese view you could see it as strong leadership that Xi Jinping has made minimal concessions to Donald Trump in persisting with China's higher tariffs, restrictive investment environment and subsidised state-led growth model.
But Mr Xi's efforts to maintain a protectionist-heavy domestic economy while telling the world that China is a champion of free trade isn't going well.
The European Business Chamber, representing industrial giants that have transferred vital technological know how to China over the past 40 years of opening up, issued a statement in November describing yet more promises to "open up" as "constant repetition, without sufficient concrete measures or timelines being introduced".
A pre-Christmas proposal to outlaw forced transfers of technology was greeted with scepticism among the foreign business community here.
End-game for Uyghurs still unclear

PHOTO Satellite imagery captured over a remote and highly volatile region of western China lifts the lid on the size and spread of internment camps.
ABC NEWS/GOOGLE EARTH/DIGITAL GLOBE

And then there are the "vocational training centres".
For the first half of the year, Chinese officials were ordered to simply reject Western media reports of mass incarceration of ethnic minority Muslims in the country's far west.
By the end of the year, Chinese media outlets had changed tune, claiming the policy has brought an end to the sporadic terror attacks that used to happen and is an exemplary model of human rights.
But UN and Western media scrutiny aside, the year ended with Islamic groups in Turkey and Indonesia trying to pressure their own governments to raise concerns with China, something so farmajority-Muslim nations have largely avoided.
Why is Huawei so controversial?

The dramatic arrest in Canada of Huawei's chief financial officer for possible extradition to the US shocked many. But what exactly is Huawei and why does it seem like it's continually being targeted by foreign governments?
The end game for the estimated hundreds of thousands of detainees is far from clear — they reportedly will be released after sufficiently completing training programs — and it's likely Mr Xi will have to contend with further concern from the Muslim world that previously wasn't a big issue in Chinese diplomacy.
China also ends the year in a heated spat with Canada, and with a growing backlash in the West to the country's flagship tech company Huawei over spying concerns.
That's not to say there hasn't been good moments for the Chinese President.
His pressure campaign on independently-run Taiwan saw more diplomatic allies of the democratic island flip to recognising the People's Republic, and Beijing was thrilled when Taiwanese votersoverwhelmingly rejected the independence-leaning incumbents at the mid-term elections.
Distrust of economic figures
PHOTO President Xi Jinping sits alongside African leaders at the 2018 FOCAC Beijing summit.
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The sight of more than 40 African heads of state in the Chinese capital in September for a major summit also reaffirmed China's political grip on the continent.
Overall though, it's the domestic economy that has defined the rise of modern China, and if you believe the official figures, it only slowed a little this year.
But one liberal economist believes China's real growth rate is less than a third of the official figure, and while few support that view, there are ample signs that things are not chugging along as fast as China's Government would have us believe.
China's questionable numbers

Why does China even bother producing GDP numbers that few economists see as credible, asks Stephen Letts.
Censorship guidelines discouraging talk of bad economic news, local officials in China's manufacturing heartland withholding economic data and reports of factory workers being put on holiday leave earlier than normal.
Diminishing returns from China's debt-fuelled growth model more than the US trade spat is causing the slowdown, which has long been on the horizon.
But Xi Jinping, like his predecessors, takes every opportunity to lavish credit on the Communist Party for China's economic rise.
If the slowdown worsens in 2019 as many predict, it'll be difficult for the Party and its leader not to wear the blame.
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