creative. we have in the history confucius, and other well—known thinkers. we have invented papermaking, gunpowder, compost, which impact on the development of humankind. we have created poetry, different types of poetry over different types of poetry over different dynasty is. —— dynasty is. we have created moving and have built the great wall of china, the great canal, the forbidden city and

the palace. today, the creative spirit of the chinese people is released once again to push forward oui’ released once again to push forward our development. i believe as long as people of 1.3 billion can work in this spirit, we will create endless miracles. the chinese people are hard—working

people over the centuries. the chinese people have strived and developed and created our country and developed our ocean coasts and agriculture products and have worked on the thousands of rivers and have built numerous towns and villages and created comprehensive

industries. the chinese people have realised there is no free lunch. to enjoy your life, you have to work hard. with the current situation, we can see if the result —— it is the result of the people's sacrifice and ha rd result of the people's sacrifice and hard work. i believe as long as 1.3 billion people upholds the spirit of strife, we will achieve our gain to

create a better life for our people. the chinese people are united. over the history of decades, the chinese people always united and worked together. we established a country of different nationalities. we have a system of 56 nationalities and formed a big family for the chinese people, especially in recent, modern china with —— modern china. with

hardship, our people have worked together, shoulder to shoulder. defeated aggressor ‘s and defended oui’ defeated aggressor ‘s and defended our integrity and independence. —— aggressors. we have written a brilliant chapter, and epoque, of defending our country. the achievement we have made so far is the result of our working together. the chinese people have realised through our own experience that unite is strength, unite can make us forward. the divided country cannot

develop. i believe as long as 1.3 billion chinese people up hold disunited spirit, we will form a force which is invisible. the chinese people have great dreams. over the centuries, the chinese people hold their dreams and pursue their dreams. we formed our well—to—do life concept and we have the whole world in our mind. from

the whole world in our mind. from the ancient history, we worked, we had an outward outlook. in ancient times, our legends and stories have reflected our dreams of working outwards. the chinese people believe we can climb the high mountains and walk long way to achieve our goal. since the modern era, rejuvenating oui’ since the modern era, rejuvenating our country has become a dream of

the chinese people. we are resolute and persistent and we have the spirit to fight to the end against oui’ spirit to fight to the end against our enemies. we have the strength and the belief to stand among nations in the world and we have struggled for more than 170 years and today, the chinese people are more than ever confident and have belief in our rejuvenation. i believe as long as our people uphold oui’ believe as long as our people uphold ourdream, and we believe as long as our people uphold our dream, and we will achieve our

dream. and rejuvenation of a —— rejuvenation of our nation. comrades, we great people with the great nations, with the great national spirit, we are proud to be confident in our system, in our rout and culture. —— route. which also encourages to go forward. ours is a country under the leadership of the

working class and the people and with the democratic people's dictatorship. all the power belongs to the people. we must uphold the dictatorship. all the power belongs to the people. we must upi ini the dictatorship. all the power belongs to the people. we must upi in thee people ‘s wisdom. and take in the peoples views as the criteria of whatever we do, to tackle the issues which are directly related to people

‘s concerns and interests. so that oui’ ‘s concerns and interests. so that our people and future generations will enjoy the happy life. when people are confident, the country has a future and a country is powerful. china's socialism has entered into a new era. the hard—working chinese entered into a new era. the ha rd—working chinese people entered into a new era. the hard—working chinese people are more confident, self—respect and self believing. the ancient, great, eastern chinese nation has a bright future. our theory, our system,

eastern chinese nation has a bright future. ourtheory, oursystem, our culture, is full of life. we are confident about our future. history has and will continue to prove that only socialism can save china. only the socialist system with chinese characters will help us to rejuvenate our nation. the world is changing. the development of our country is at a critical stage. we have a good environment and conditions for development but we

also face challenges and difficulties. the 19th cpc congress have described a blueprint of building a well—to—do society and the rejuvenation of the chinese nation, to turn the blueprint into is the new battle. there is a long way to go. time waits for no one. we cannot be complacent and laid—back. we have been listening to the closing speech at president xi

jinping at the rubberstamp parliament, the national people's congress. this one has been marked historically by the presidential term limits being lifted making president xi president as long as he likes. he opens the national people's congress over two weeks ago which a speech saying that only socialism is the way ahead for china and that the development of their country is at a critical stage. he says it is crucial for the chinese government to work for the people and he called the people the real heroes and that they hold all the power. we will have much more coming up power. we will have much more coming up and we have sports next. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: the windies winding their way to the world cup. victory over zimbabwe takes them to the brink of qualifying for next years extravaga nza the cleveland cavaliers are facing up to life without their coach as tyronn lue takes a break.

and perhaps the greatest advert for the adoption of var technology. we'll show you why the referee really got this one wrong. thank you forjoining us. we will kick off the show talking about the west indies and at the cricket and they have finally come back from the brink and they are a step closer to the world cup after managing to defeat zimbabwe by four wickets. the shock defeat to afghanistan left the west indies with a point to prove an rre and ferocious bowling saw a player catch one in the grille in