“ … when the pale light of New Year dawns over the earth, we must be responsible to this country. When we look to the vast heavens, beneath them we see land criss-crossed by row upon row of incredible, huge earthquake-folded mountains, land of prosperous cities and anciently productive of grain, and coming and going in this country, people immersed in dreams; when our children are born crying out in their weak but loud and clear voices in the night, we will know that nothing is more precious than a conviction, and also that there has never been an era as difficult, yet as hopeful as this.
The closing lines of the 2009 address from the reform-minded Chinese newspaper, Southern Weekend.
3 years ago
