This past month, who knows if it was that speech Miao Tianming gave at the family banquet that set off a whole chain reaction—anyway, one favorable policy after another has been coming out.
Or maybe that's just how history was going to go in the first place.
At the year-end National People's Congress they officially announced the country's modernization drive: we must make use of two kinds of resources—domestic resources and foreign resources; open up two markets—our domestic market and the international market; and learn two sets of skills—the ability to organize domestic construction and the ability to develop foreign economic relations.
In short, reform and opening was picking up pace.
In the dead of the twelfth lunar month, not long after this news came out, the institutional downsizing meeting also stressed realizing a cadre team that is revolutionary, younger, more educated, and more professional.
These messages no doubt put everyone in a much better mood.
