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我国是统一的多民族国家，各民族共同团结奋斗、共同繁荣发展，国家才能兴旺发达。要坚持和完善民族区域自治制度，认真贯彻落实中央支持少数民族和民族地区发展的政策措施，大力实施扶持人口较少民族发展、推进兴边富民行动和发展少数民族事业规划。坚定不移地巩固和发展平等团结互助和谐的社会主义民族关系。

认真贯彻党的宗教工作基本方针。维护宗教团体、宗教界人士和信教群众的合法权益，充分发挥他们在促进经济发展、文化繁荣、社会和谐中的积极作用。

全面贯彻党的侨务政策。维护海外侨胞和归侨侨眷合法权益，支持他们积极参与祖国现代化建设与和平统一大业。

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巩固的国防和强大的军队，是维护国家主权、安全和发展利益的坚强后盾。要着眼全面履行新世纪新阶段军队历史使命，全面加强军队革命化现代化正规化建设，不断提高以打赢信息化条件下局部战争能力为核心的完成多样化军事任务的能力。加强思想政治建设，坚持党对军队绝对领导的根本原则和人民军队的根本宗旨。积极开展信息化条件下军事训练。

加快全面建设现代后勤步伐。大力提高国防科技和武器装备自主创新能力。着力培养高素质新型军事人才。积极稳妥地实施国防和军队改革。坚持依法治军、从严治军。全面建设现代化武装警察力量。加强国防动员和后备力量建设。坚决完成反恐维稳、处置突发事件、抢险救灾等任务。坚持军民结合、寓军于民，走中国特色军民融合式发展路子。巩固发展军政军民团结。

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香港、澳门与祖国休戚相关、荣辱与共。我们将坚定不移地贯彻“一国两制”、“港人治港”、“澳人治澳”、高度自治的方针，全力支持香港、澳门发展经济，改善民生，推进民主。支持特区政府积极应对国际经济风险挑战，维护经济金融稳定和长期繁荣发展。衔接和落实好支持港澳经济社会发展的系列政策措施，大幅提升内地对港澳服务贸易开放水平，加快推进港珠澳大桥等基础设施建设和对接，深化合作，支持港澳参与国际和区域经济合作。

支持香港巩固和提升国际金融、贸易、航运中心地位，建设离岸人民币业务中心。支持澳门建设世界旅游休闲中心，推进横琴新区建设，促进经济适度多元发展。我们相信，有伟大祖国作为坚强后盾，香港、澳门同胞一定能够把自己的家园建设得更加美好！

过去的一年，两岸关系经受了严峻考验，取得了积极进展。反对“台独”、认同“九二共识”，巩固交流合作成果，促进两岸关系和平发展，日益成为两岸同胞的共同意愿。新的一年，我们要继续坚持中央对台工作的大政方针，增强两岸关系发展的政治、经济、文化和民意基础，拓展两岸关系和平发展新局面。

要全面深化经济金融合作，推动两岸经济合作框架协议后续商谈取得新进展。加快海峡西岸经济区建设。积极扩大各界往来，开展文化、教育等交流，使两岸同胞联系更紧密，感情更贴近，利益更融合。全体中华儿女要更加紧密地团结起来，为完成祖国统一大业、实现中华民族伟大复兴而努力奋斗！

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新的一年，外交工作要更好地服务于改革开放和社会主义现代化建设大局，为促进世界经济增长、维护和平稳定作出更大贡献。我们将继续深化同周边国家的睦邻友好关系，积极参与周边各种合作机制，推动区域合作深入发展，共同营造和平稳定、平等互信、合作共赢的地区环境。我们将与广大发展中国家加强团结合作，深化传统友谊，扩大互利合作，推动实现联合国千年发展目标，维护发展中国家的正当权益和共同利益。

我们将加强与各大国的战略对话，增进战略互信，拓展合作领域，推进相互关系长期稳定健康发展。我们将积极参与多边事务和全球治理，推动国际秩序朝着更加公正合理的方向发展。我们将坚定不移地走和平发展道路，坚持独立自主的和平外交政策，奉行互利共赢的开放战略，同世界各国一道，为促进人类文明进步，增进各国人民的福祉和建设一个持久和平、共同繁荣的和谐世界而不懈努力！

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回顾过去，我们拼搏奋进，取得显著成就；展望未来，我们任重道远，仍须不懈努力。让我们紧密团结在以胡锦涛同志为总书记的党中央周围，解放思想，开拓创新，扎实工作，奋力开创社会主义现代化建设新局面！

Fellow Deputies,

China is a unified, multiethnic country. Only when its ethnic groups are united as one and work for the development of all can China achieve prosperity. We will adhere to and improve the system of regional ethnic autonomy, fully implement the central leadership's policies and measures for supporting the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic minority areas, and energetically implement plans to support development of ethnic groups with small populations, projects to bring prosperity to border areas and residents there, and services for ethnic minorities. We will unwaveringly consolidate and develop socialist ethnic relations of equality, solidarity, mutual assistance, and harmony.

We will actively implement the Party's basic policy on work related to religion, protect the lawful rights and interests of religious groups, religious figures, and believers, and give full play to their positive role in promoting economic development, cultural prosperity, and social harmony.

We will fully implement the Party's policy on overseas Chinese affairs, protect the lawful rights and interests of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and support them in taking an active part in the endeavor to modernize China and in advancing the great cause of China's peaceful reunification.

Fellow Deputies,

Strong national defense and powerful armed forces provide a firm guarantee for safeguarding China's sovereignty, security, and development interests. We will make the armed forces more revolutionary, modern, and standardized in all respects so they can comprehensively accomplish their historic mission at the new stage in the new century. We will enhance the armed forces' capability to accomplish a wide range of military tasks, the most important of which is to win local wars under information-age conditions. We will strengthen their ideological and political standards, and adhere to the fundamental principle of the Party having absolute leadership over the armed forces, and we should maintain the Chinese armed forces' fundamental purpose of being an army of the people. We will vigorously carry out military training under information-age conditions.

We will accelerate the modernization of the logistics support system, and vigorously enhance our capacity for making innovations in defense-related science and technology and in weapons and equipment development. We will focus on training a new type of highly competent military personnel. We will actively yet prudently carry out reform of national defense and the armed forces. We will run the armed forces with strict discipline and in accordance with the law. We will comprehensively modernize the armed police force. We will strengthen national defense mobilization and improve our reserves. We will ensure the armed forces resolutely accomplish the tasks of combating terrorism, maintaining stability, handling emergencies, and relieving disasters. We will follow the path of integrated military and civilian development with Chinese characteristics by unifying military and civilian industries and embedding military programs in civilian industries. We will consolidate and develop solidarity between the military and the government and between the military and the people.

Fellow Deputies,

Hong Kong and Macao are closely bound with the mainland of China and we share a common destiny. We will unwaveringly implement the principle of "one country, two systems" under which the people of Hong Kong govern Hong Kong and the people of Macao govern Macao and both regions enjoy a high degree of autonomy, and we will fully support the two regions in growing their economies, improving the people's wellbeing and promoting democracy. We support the governments of the two special administrative regions in meeting the challenges of international economic risks and in upholding economic and financial stability and ensuring long-term prosperity and development. We will implement coordinated policies and measures for supporting the economic and social development of Hong Kong and Macao, open the mainland much wider to trade in services with the two regions, accelerate the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and other shared infrastructure projects, and deepen cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao to support them in participating in international and regional economic cooperation.

We support Hong Kong in consolidating and elevating its position as an international financial, trade, and shipping center, and in becoming a center of offshore RMB transactions. We support Macao in becoming a world center of tourism and leisure, building the Hengqin New Area, and diversifying Macao's economy as necessary. We believe that with the staunch support of the great motherland, our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao will certainly create an even brighter future for themselves.

Last year, relations across the Taiwan Straits withstood serious tests and improved considerably. Opposing Taiwan independence, accepting the 1992 Consensus, consolidating achievements in exchanges and cooperation, and promoting peaceful development of cross-Straits relations have increasingly become shared aspirations of the people on both sides of the Straits. In 2012, we will adhere to the central leadership's policies on work related to Taiwan; strengthen the political, economic, and cultural foundation and public support for growing cross-Straits relations; and make further progress in promoting their peaceful development.

We will deepen all-around cross-Straits economic and financial cooperation, and strive to make new progress in the follow-up talks on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement. We will accelerate development of the Western Taiwan Straits Economic Zone. We will energetically expand cross-Straits exchanges between people from all walks of life and carry out cultural, educational and other exchanges to forge a closer bond and increase mutual attachment and common interests between the two sides. All Chinese people should unite more closely and endeavor to accomplish the great cause of China's reunification and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Fellow Deputies,

In the new year, China's diplomacy should better promote the country's over-arching goal of promoting reform, opening up, and socialist modernization; and make greater contributions to global economic growth and world peace and stability. We will continue to deepen friendly relations with our neighbors; actively participate in cooperation mechanisms with them; deepen regional cooperation; and work with them in creating a regional environment of peace, stability, equality, mutual trust, cooperation, and mutual benefit. We will enhance unity and cooperation with other developing countries, deepen traditional friendships, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals, and uphold the legitimate rights and interests as well as the common interests of developing countries.

We will increase strategic dialogue with other major countries to promote strategic mutual trust, broaden areas of cooperation, and promote the long-term, steady, and sound growth of our relations with them. We will actively participate in multilateral affairs and global governance and contribute to making the international political and economic order more just and equitable. We will adhere to the path of peaceful development, continue to pursue an independent foreign policy of peace, and follow an open strategy of mutual benefit. We will work tirelessly with other countries to advance human civilization, improve the wellbeing of people in all countries, and build a harmonious world of enduring peace and common prosperity.

Fellow Deputies,

In the past, we have achieved remarkable progress through hard work. In the future, we must continue to work tirelessly to accomplish the important tasks on the road ahead. Let all of us rally closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as General Secretary, free our minds, forge ahead in the spirit of innovation, make solid progress in our work, and strive to further advance socialist modernization.