February 4th, the fourth day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, coincides with the Spring Festival.
On the same day, President Xi Jinping was busy with two major events: in the afternoon, he came to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and in the evening, he went to the National Stadium to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics and announced the opening.
The plan of the year is spring. What important information was released by the "New Year Meeting" between the Chinese and Russian heads of state? What kind of "spring sound" has been sent to the world by the Winter Olympics, which opened as scheduled?
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"38th meeting"
This is a "Winter Olympic Covenant" that has long been scheduled.
Putin is the world's first head of state to explicitly take a stand at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. On December 15 last year, Xi Jinping said in a video conference with Putin that I am very much looking forward to our "Winter Olympics Covenant".
On the afternoon of February 4 this year, Putin arrived as promised. As soon as he got off the plane, he came to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing.
△ The talks on the same day were held in Fanghua Garden, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. (Photographed by Yang Bo, a reporter from CCTV)
This agreement can be traced back even further.
At the meeting site, Xi Jinping talked about his trip to Sochi eight years ago. In 2014, on the seventh day of the first lunar month, he was invited by President Putin to Russia to attend the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics. This is the first time that a Chinese head of state has attended the opening ceremony of a major international sports event held abroad.
At that time, Xi Jinping said to Putin, "According to Chinese customs, neighbors do happy events, of course, I have to come to congratulate you in person." At that time, Beijing and Zhangjiakou had officially proposed to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The two prime ministers met again in Beijing about eight years later.
△ The lampshade of Fanghuayuan is printed with the pattern of the "ice pier" of the mascot of the Beijing Winter Olympics. (Photographed by CCTV reporter Wang Ce)
The "Covenant of the Winter Olympics", which spans 8 years, was realized on the day of spring this year, which can be described as a favorable time and place. Xi Jinping said: "I believe that our 'New Year meeting' today will surely inject more vitality into China-Russia relations." ”
During the talks, President Putin said that the exchange of Visits at the Olympic Games has become a manifestation and a good tradition of close relations between the heads of state of Russia and China.
△ The hall of Fanghuayuan is decorated with the national flags of the two countries, and after the national flag is the "Spring Map of the Six Contracts". Liuhe refers to the four sides of heaven and earth (heaven and earth and southeast, northwest and northwest), and the spring of the six contracts is the spring of the world, and everything is thriving. (Photographed by Yang Bo, a reporter from CCTV)
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the face-to-face offline meeting between the heads of state of China and Russia is the first time in more than two years. The last offline meeting was in November 2019 when the two heads of state jointly participated in the BRICS meeting in Brasilia.
When the video meeting was held more than a month ago, President Xi said, "I did the math, and this is also our 37th meeting since 2013." 37+1, by this "New Year meeting", it is already the 38th meeting.
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"New Year's Meeting" highlights these two key words
This "New Year meeting" is not just for the Winter Olympics. On the afternoon of February 4, President Xi Jinping and President Putin had an in-depth and full exchange of views on China-Russia relations and a series of major issues related to international strategic security and stability.
The first key word: strategic collaboration.
△ The flags of the two countries at the scene of the talks. (Photographed by CCTV reporter Wang Ce)
In June 2019, President Xi Jinping visited Russia for the eighth time since 2013 and jointly announced with President Putin the development of a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination between China and Russia in the new era.
On February 4, the word "strategy" appeared 12 times in a press release issued after the talks.
△ In August 2021, heilongjiang tongjiang, the first cross-river railway bridge between China and Russia to achieve track laying. (Photo/Visual China)
Xi Jinping said that in the face of the profound and complex evolution of the international situation, China and Russia are determined to deepen back-to-back strategic cooperation and shoulder to shoulder to safeguard international fairness and justice. This is a strategic choice that has far-reaching impact on both China and Russia and the world, and will not waver in the past, present, and future.
Putin said that the strategic nature of Russian-Chinese relations has never been highlighted and has attracted the attention of the world.
△ Heihe First Station is China's "First National Gate Station" of the China-Russia East Line Natural Gas Pipeline. (Photo/Visual China)
When Xi Jinping visited Russia in 2019, the leaders of the two countries jointly signed two joint statements, one on developing a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in the new era, and the other on strengthening contemporary global strategic stability.
When the world enters a new period of turbulent change, it is even more urgent and important for China and Russia to show the mind of a big country, take the role of a big country, jointly practice true multilateralism, safeguard the true democratic spirit, and safeguard global security and strategic stability.
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The second key word: pragmatic cooperation.
Another important purpose of this "Spring Festival meeting" is to promote more results in all-round pragmatic cooperation between the two countries.
On the eve of his visit to China, Putin revealed in a written interview with Shen Haixiong, director of the Central Radio and Television Station, that despite the restrictions of the epidemic, preliminary data show that bilateral trade reached a record high of $140 billion last year.
During the talks on February 4, Xi Jinping stressed the need to implement the roadmap for the high-quality development of Trade in Goods and Services between China and Russia, and deepen cooperation in agriculture, green trade, medicine and health, and digital economy.
△ November 2021, Shanghai, Russian food booth at the 4th CIIE. (Photo/Visual China)
Energy cooperation is the most important, fruitful and extensive field of cooperation between the two countries.
In a signed article published before coming to China, Putin said that a mutually beneficial energy alliance is being formed between our two countries, "all of which have greatly strengthened the energy security of China and the entire Asian region."
During the talks on February 4, Xi Jinping hoped that the two countries would strengthen their strategic energy partnership, steadily promote major oil and gas cooperation projects, strengthen joint innovation in major technologies in the energy field, expand new energy cooperation, support each other to ensure energy security, and promote the improvement of the global energy governance system.
△ Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear energy cooperation project between China and Russia. On May 19, 2021, the Tianwan Nuclear Power Units 7 and 8 project officially started construction. (Photo/Visual China)
The "Bird's Nest" witnesses the "Double Olympic" dream and shows cultural self-confidence
On the evening of February 4, President Xi Jinping came to the "Bird's Nest" of the National Stadium to attend the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games in Beijing and announced the opening of the Winter Olympic Games.
The Beijing Winter Olympics is the first global comprehensive sports event to be held as scheduled since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. In the evening, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games opened the curtain for a "simple, safe and wonderful" Winter Olympics.
△ Crystal clear ice and snow five rings. (Infographic)
The opening ceremony began with the festival of "Li Chun" and "a snowflake" throughout, allowing the world to taste the Chinese outlook on life, values and cosmology. Every frame is full of Chinese culture, and every design highlights cultural self-confidence.
△ Green is growing in the center of the "Bird's Nest". (Photographed by Li Jin, a reporter from Taiwan Guoguang)
The opening ceremony no longer focuses on the huge and tactical programs of the sea of people, but shows the traditional Chinese romance and aesthetics through creativity; no longer presents Too much of China's 5,000 years of history and culture, but pays more attention to showing the spirit of China in the new era; no longer pursues uniform dress and uniformity, but expresses the sincere feelings of ordinary people; no longer just tells the story of "I", but also shows the common future of "we".
△ The host Chinese delegation entered, and the two flag bearers were Zhao Dan, a female chinese steel frame snowmobile, and Gao Tingyu, a speed skater. (Photographed by liao Jiangheng, a reporter from the main station)
Just last month, when inspecting the preparations for the Winter Olympics, Xi Jinping pointed out that "the successful hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympics and The Winter Paralympic Games can not only enhance the confidence in realizing the great rejuvenation of the nation, but also show the world a sunny, rich, open and hopeful national image." History will engrave this pen, and the world will have a new understanding of China's road. ”
From the "Centennial Dream" in 2008 to today's "City of the Two Olympics", the opening ceremony is the opportunity for us to tell the story of China out loud to the world.
△ The "big snowflake" at the opening ceremony is composed of snowflake-shaped guide cards of various delegations, which can be described as full of details. (Photographed by liao Jiangheng, a reporter from the main station)
In November 2015, Xi Jinping put forward the concept of green Olympic Games, shared Olympic Games, open Olympic Games, and clean Olympic Games. The unique opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics is a vivid embodiment of this Olympic concept.
For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, the main torch uses the "micro-fire" method, which fully embodies the concept of green environmental protection. The entire opening ceremony was completed by ordinary people, volunteers and athletes from all walks of life, and the number of people was only about 3,000. The amount of fireworks at this opening ceremony is less than 10% of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games...
△ The snowflakes of Yanshan Mountain are as large as a seat, and after the torch is embedded in it, it forms the main torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics. (Infographic)
"China is a staunch pursuer and activist of the Olympic ideal"
On February 3, just the day before the opening ceremony, Xi Jinping delivered a video address to the opening ceremony of the 139th Plenum of the International Olympic Committee. He said, "Through the preparation of the Winter Olympics, China has successfully led 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports, promoted regional development, ecological construction, green innovation, and improved people's lives, and opened up a broader space for the development of global ice and snow sports." ”
△ The Olympic flag is flown with the five-star red flag at the National Stadium. (Filmed by Han Rui, a reporter of CCTV)
In his speech at the opening ceremony, IOC President Bach spoke highly of it: "China's extraordinary achievements in winter sports have opened a new era of global winter sports, which will bring global winter sports participation to a new level and benefit Chinese and winter sports enthusiasts around the world." ”
△ The new Olympic motto: "Faster, higher, stronger – more united." (Photographed by Li Jin, a reporter from Taiwan Guoguang)
At the opening ceremony, a short film was played: a group of cute babies boldly trying and playing happily on the ice and snow, and the title of the film was "Future Champions". Its original intention was to "drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports to start from the doll, and the champion will be born in the baby".
A total of 388 Chinese delegations attended the Winter Olympics, including 177 athletes, the highest number of Chinese participants in the previous Winter Olympics, and completed the task of "participating in all 7 major events and 15 sub-events" of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
△ At the opening ceremony, nearly 200 representatives passed the five-star red flag with their hands, full of extreme affection and reached the hearts of the people. (Photographed by liao Jiangheng, a reporter from the main station)
In early 2014, in Sochi, Russia, Xi Jinping told Bach for the first time about one of his considerations: "The biggest purpose of our bid for the Winter Olympics is to promote the popularization of ice and snow sports among 300 million people and promote the leapfrog development of ice and snow sports in China." ”
After 8 years, the effect is revealed. By preparing for the Winter Olympics, China has not only caught up with the competitive level of ice and snow sports, but also caught up with the popularization and promotion of ice and snow sports, and the quality and quantity of sports have improved.
In his 2022 New Year's message, President Xi Jinping said: "Let more people participate in ice and snow sports, which is also the meaning of the Olympic movement." ”
△ Together to the future. (Photographed by Li Jin, a reporter from Taiwan Guoguang)
In his video message on February 3, President Xi Jinping firmly declared that from "one world, one dream" in 2008 to "Together for the Future" in 2022, China has actively participated in the Olympic movement, unremittingly carried forward the Olympic spirit, and is a firm pursuer and activist of the Olympic ideal.
With the Beijing Winter Olympics as a new starting point, China will lead the world to open a new era of ice and snow sports with its own actions.
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