 To share with you my views on the great significance of the once in the five years grand political assembly, the 19th National Congress of the CPC convened in Beijing last month. I noticed there are some also friends from China and a lot of friends actually have been visiting China back in the force, and you may be better informed even than me. So here I give my personal view and for you to comment or to give your opinion. The Congress for me actually has provided a unique opportunity to learn and understand China's major policy trends reform and the development blueprint and strategies in the following five, ten, fifteen, and even more years to come. The Congress lasted about a week and produced successfully new leadership of the party and quite a few important documents and reports. Here you may be know that our general secretary gave his, delivered his report for more than three hours. So it's a very comprehensive, significant report. Now here maybe I have 40 minutes. So I will try to concentrate. Oh, there are some other documents during the conference. We have revised the constitution of the CPC, the Chinese Communist Party. We have also a special report for China's, should we say, for China's chief weeps, disciplinary report to report to the Congress that how they have the measures and actions to have a party really answer and care for the people. Now here I want to concentrate on the report made by the general secretary Xi Jinping, especially emphasize the major achievements we believe we have and the policy areas. Then I will deal with the foreign policy and the Sino-Irish relations very briefly. First, the achievements over the past five years. Since the year of 2012 when Xi Jinping became the general secretary, achievements obtained are tremendous. China has in fact used the words in the report to the fact that China has in fact surmounted many tough hurdles that were long remaining on our development track and accomplished many tough tasks that were left on the reform agenda for quite a while. I think the meaning of this is we started our reform and opening up since 1978. It became, it started in earnest in 1980s. And in the beginning it is a large scale reforms for the easy part, now we look back. For example, in the rural areas we just simply dismantled what they called people's commune system. That system was modeled part of it on Soviet Union to have total public ownership of the land and put all the farmers and peasants as farmers, as the workers like in the Soviet Union. We didn't do that, we didn't go that far. We keep our Chinese people's commune union, we keep the land still the state. But we gave the land to the what we called production teams and the villages to let them perform and manage in a collective way. That is what we call in the China system in the rural areas, in the agriculture, agriculture rural areas, we call it collective system. So now we still have that the land in China is still state owned. But now we dismantled the whole people's union, people's commune system. And we have, we gave the land to the farmers to let them pretty much like here, the farmers each farm have their own land, they can choose as they will do it collectively. They can do it in a farmer in the household way. So this one policy, one measure is covers the whole country. So just half a year and the one year the harvest of the whole China's agriculture is doubled. Another example is in the beginning of China's reform, we just dismantled and reorganized China's central government's ministries. Some ministries just simply disappear because some of the ministries also modeled on the early Soviet government. They get every sector, almost every sector of industry, one government industry. So you have first the ministry of light industry, second the ministry of light industry, all of the ministries. We also, from the beginning, we didn't do exactly Soviet way. We keep it more comprehensive. But still we feel some of the ministries are redundant. So in the beginning, in late 1970s and early 1980s, we make them just disappear, like ministry of textile, ministry of light industry, ministry of commerce, it disappear. That will, in a matter of 24 hours, affect the whole country because people feel they can do themselves. Like in the ministry of commerce, business department, ministry of, we call it ministry of commerce. Now the ministry of commerce is for the trade. So a lot of industries is completely privatized in consumers, in textiles, in light industries. But gradually our reform goes to some more specific and higher level. That's what we, we have all that reforms. Of course, there are some other reforms like what we call price reform. So we go, we go, we begin to let market decide the price of many or more merchants and the products. And now China, there is no more what we call the management of the price as we did 10, 20 or 30 years ago. But now when our general secretary Xi Jinping entered the office, 2012, we have already experienced 35 years, more than, about 35 years of reform. So now, in a lot of fields, we feel we are pretty much like a country of middle level developed country, or the higher level of the development country. That some of the measures and the policies, we need to do it in a more fine and nuanced way. And even if you take one measure, it only benefit maybe 10 million people. Another measure only benefit another sector of people. So you get a lot of coordination and work to do. And also, of course, we see the gap between the rich and poor, coastal areas and hinterland, west and east, the differentiation of the incomes and wealth. So these all need the current leadership to handle. So now, if you look at China, you didn't see a measure like that scale. Because we are proud to say we have successfully accomplished all of them. So for this leadership, now they have to do it one every time, one every sometime, and after a lot of in China consultation, discussion, deliberation. As many as, now we look back in these five years, as many as 360 major national initiatives and more than 1,500 sectorial or local measures have been adopted or carried out. A great many new streamlining and simplifying of old institutions are put in place for a more open business environment. That's the purpose. Including greater dynamic foreign trade and the investment, a bigger section of high value added economy, a lot of eradication of unnecessary formalities and red tapes. And secondly, we have advanced conceptual, institutional, practical studies, engineering and experiments to unleash fresh impetus for and encourage the purpose. Quality and innovation driven growth. So now even in Ireland, we already failed the impact. Like some, I saw some of the professors here in the CIT, in the UCD, and they have a lot of professors and universities presidents to come to visit here. What they do, they just study how you manage your universities and colleges. So be careful, give them your good experience, not bad. So the details, Chinese teams, they like to learn are very, very much micro. They like to even have a bunch of your charters carried to home to study how and when they can apply or they can try at least in China's situation. The purpose is to try to transform China's economy and the environment in an upgraded way. More, as I said, quality and innovation driven. China has become a gigantic market now where all elements of innovation are converging, leading to a growing part of the economy. From infrastructure to manufacturing, from business models, education models to ways of consumption. So now you can see that we have, we have the better and the good gadgets now. We have some gadgets can go deeper into the sea, ocean. We may have the rocket to send more satellites, dozens of them or 20 of them in one, in one shoot. We try to get our production and manufacturing and services better. Thirdly, a people first guideline. You can see a lot of translations. Anyway, the basis is the idea is the people first. Has been firmly implemented for development to make sure that our growth is inclusive and fair. Pretty much, pretty much like the paper title here and somewhere, sometimes. Poverty elimination remains a firm commitment. Personal income has registered sustained price, a rise. Outpacing GDP growth for years. Income gaps between urban and rural areas and between different regions have been narrowed. More than 13 million new urban jobs have been created every year for four consecutive years. When I was in Beijing, I work in the state council and we work on the government papers. I know that every year then we need to produce or create at least eight million jobs, new jobs. With a growth rate of eight. Actually, we achieved almost nine to 12. Now with six to seven growth rate, we managed to create 12 to 13 million new jobs every year. It's two Ireland, more than two Ireland. Income per capita in poor rural areas has maintained double digit growth. Significant advances have been made in pursuing green and ecologically sound economic expansion. Fourthly, relation between China and countries in the world has witnessed great progress. Our friends and the partners are all over the world and growing. When we say partners, it is much good. It is all good connotation. It is not that in here the business partners means we can cooperate in this area, maybe we can compete in the other areas. The partners in China's sense is very good. We have together with more than 60 countries across Asia, Africa, Pacific Ocean, and Europe jointly pursue the Belt and Road Initiative. We initiated the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB, and Ireland is the member. Set up the Silk Road Fund, I think this fund is solely China created with 40 billion US dollars. The AIIB is China's initiative, but it's jointly contributed by the international partners. Maybe as a member like here, I don't know, 0.3, you can make your contribution. And I think 17 European countries also are the members. The hosted and hosted the first Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation this year. We in the Belt and Road International Cooperation call and stand strongly for togetherness, sharing, and win-win approach. We advocate joint actions to enhance infrastructure construction, connectivity, policy coordination, humanity exchanges, partners, national goals, collaboration. That's my translation and there are some other translations of the approach we advocate for the Belt and Road Initiative. And lastly, remarkable achievements have been made in ensuring full and strict governance over the CPC organization itself. I think you have the news now and then about this and the firm action has been introduced to take out tigers, swap flies, and hunt down foxes abroad. So now even I think thanks for the support of all our international partners, including Ireland, United States, Australia, New Zealand, all English countries, I think have more foxes than some other languages being country, more convenient maybe to hide in the English language. And really we enjoy this very good international cooperation to find the corrupted people, some of them in the company, some of them in government and in the party organizations and we bring them back for justice. The anti-corruption campaign has been built into a crushing tide and one wide support across China. Secondly, the future trends in China's policy. The 19th Congress has paved the way for a very dynamic and very bright and inspiring future of China. And I believe for our cooperation with the rest of the world, the Congress formulated a grand guideline for action and the development blueprint for China in the new era. There are a lot of plans there. Now even international community know that is for real. When we say it, we will achieve it. And as an experience and we will look back, all those goals, we not only achieved it, we surpass it. We surpass it almost every major goal so far in this 35 years, 38 years. By 2020, China will be built. Here I'll only give you some extract, some ideas. You can refer back to the report themselves. By 2020, China will be built into a higher level of prosperity for the whole society. By that, I just guess. And China, when we say how much is the level at what, we use some modest terms. Last year, our per capita, when we just started our reform, our per capita GDP for China per annum is about three to 500 US dollars, almost the lowest in the world. Like every country's, poverty countries. And we have a caudable plan. We have two caudable plan in 20 years. But now, I think we have surpassed. Now by the year of last, we have already about 8,000 per capita per annum GDP for Chinese people. Of course, the coast areas, about one to 200 million population of them already reached 10,000 and over US dollars per capita per annum. By the year of 2035, China will basically reach the target of what we called socialism modernization. Socialist modernization, socialist modernization. To see the countries, the World Bank and IMF have their own hallmark and standard. The classified countries, developing poor country, developed world, and the medium developed world, developed countries, like Ireland, is the most developed countries. We use that as a reference and then we apply it in China's situation. So China, we have our set of the jargon's standard. So now is the time I think we got familiar with China's way of how we classify China's development. So sometimes you, since all these are English translation and you refer to Chinese original version, it is a very condensed expression, like a Xiaokang society, moderately better. So in English, you cannot quite get some sense, but you gotta, oh, it's better. And then you get modernization, modernize the country. It may be higher. That is the night 2035. By the middle of this century, we are to attain another target of what is called greater modern socialist country. The guide indicators will be those of even more prosperous life, strong economy, democratic system, a more democratic system, advanced culture, harmonious society, and a beautiful environment. You can get sense, it's like in here you get a green and inclusive and all that jargon's. Let me elaborate a little bit of all those goals and aims, especially what we are going to do to further deepen and quicken reforms. First, we'll continue to push forward the supply side restructuring. Focus will be laid on the real sectors of economy, quality of the supply system, advanced manufacturing, integration of the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. All this we put it here means there will be, like here you have European solution, you have national solution. In China, if something put it in a central leadership report, it means there will be a China's national solution. The national central government budget will give them their input. So when you read the China's report like that, watch that fields and you will find opportunities. You will plan your own company's interaction with China. We also foster new elements of growth and adapt to medium and high-end consumption areas. Got any sense? That means we'll have more investment in China on our health, education, science and technology, food and environment. That we will see here. You are good in health, food, dairy. You will see more teams and donations coming to carry out that point. Infrastructure, infrastructure construction will be further strengthened across the board. As China, we have already have our, across the country, I think a pretty impressive modernization or upgrading of China's roads, ports and airways. Now we feel we're still not sufficient. As you see and we see too that China is so vast. And even one province is like a country in Europe. And if you look, one example is now I went back to China. I see in China we have gigantic city and province like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen with 20 billion people. And some provinces has 100 billion people. And then we have the second layer is those medium cities with millions of people. And we have third layer of the cities and towns with hundreds of thousands or one million of population. Airport, for example, if we build new airports, actually we need to build new airports for every almost every or most of the third layer cities with a population of say one million to five million. We have hundreds, we have several hundreds or maybe thousands new airports built in China. In the next 10 to, not 10, people can't wait. Maybe three, two to five years. Secondly, we'll make China a country of innovators and encourage entrepreneurship in a big and comprehensive way. While national nations, Shenzhen, local and the private efforts will also be encouraged. Medium and small firms are going to receive greater support and assistance. Thirdly, market reform will be pressed on firmly and steadily. The key areas will be the property rights system, assets management, transactions and transactions, including in the rural areas, like farming, state-owned enterprises, development of mixed ownership business, financial sectors, capital market, financial regulatory systems and risk management systems and so on so forth. So all this you can see the measures are really very, very specific. Our negotiation with European Union and America and others about the bilateral investment agreement about the new cooperation in the governance of the economy all come down to this very specific measures and laws and regulations in China and with our, in China and in our relations with the rest of the world. Fourth, investment in education, employment assistance, social security system, healthcare will all be increased. By the year 2020, all rural residents living below the current poverty line will be lifted out of poverty. 70 million of them. So this is a must for every county secretary. Every county, you see, China's central government, the province and the metropolitan cities, metropolitan cities, perfectures and counties. We have five layers of government and townships. So every township secretary, maybe village secretaries and township secretaries and county secretaries got very busy for this. In regard to our opening up drive then, China now opening up. So in China, if we summarize China's policy, we always say with three parts. Reform concerning China's internal system, opening up our relation with the rest of the world, trade investment. Now opening up. China's door will be opened wider and bigger. On one hand, we'll further expand foreign trade with more liberalization in the fields of business and investment. We'll put in place the systems such as the pre-establishment, national treatment plus a negative list across the board. Very, very professional now. I think only the Brussels experts, maybe here you understand it. This is considered, it's a very big change in China's economic system, especially our trade investment. We'll grant more free hand goals to pilot free trade zones to conduct business and explore the opening of free trade ports. In China, the reason, one of the reasons why we have these free zones and the free ports and the free this, free that. Some people say that part of it is learning from this country you have the Shandong free zones. Another is China is so vast. When we apply one policy to the country, we have to do a lot of pilot schemes to say which specific policy is applied and suitable for a given locality. So in China, if you go to China, it's really very diversified and even both horizontally and vertically. And we have the highest, like Himalaya Plateau and the Qinghai and the Tibet Plateau. It is average 3,000 meters above sea level. And we have the middle, about 1,000 to 3,000. I only have the, we have the land like Ireland. 10 meters above sea level of one meters. And we have the, I think it's five, almost three big weather zones. It is cold, continental cold and warm and all the way down to the tropical weather. Secondly, we'll continue to support multilateral trade regimes like WTO. Of course, it is stuck in the negotiation and work to facilitate the establishment of free trade areas and build an open world economy. The Belt and Road Initiative will above all remain a big priority with greater attention to introducing more business into China and China Business Go Global. A lot of, I just talked with the delegation of the Cog and others from China. They visited China just last several weeks ago. They have already very much aware of how to fit in their development and cooperation with China's initiative. I think this is a very good sign. And they would ask me whether their project, thinking and planning can fit in to the One Belt, One Road Initiative. And also, I think some other discussions are already very deep into the system and the institution like the Senior Citizens Care Center, the emergency response systems, and the healthcare, China's medication systems. So a lot of things we can exchange. Now, thirdly, China's foreign policy. I'm not going to expand everything about foreign policy. I will leave it for the questions. What I want to emphasize here is President Xi Jinping in his report has made it clear some jargon, what we call the major country diplomacy with China's characteristics, aims to foster a new type of international relations and they build a community with a shared future for mankind. These are two jargons here. The essence of what that means, I believe is simple and clear. China upholds in the international stage the principles, is based on the principles continue to be based on the principles of equality, mutual respect, and a mutual beneficial win-win. A community with a shared future for mankind means to build an open, inclusive, clean and a beautiful world of lasting peace, universal security and common prosperity to go with this globalization. With those principles and guidelines, the Chinese leadership advocate respecting the legitimate rights of all nations to choose their own development paths, upholding international fairness and justice by opposing union naturalism or power politics. Standing by the aims and principles of UN Charter, China will never pursue its own development at the expense of others' well-being. I think at this point or in future, we can really spend more time to elaborate this and this is really we feel what China can contribute for the current and future international community. Now I want to say a few words about the Sino-China-Island relations. I'm very happy to see that Ireland will continue to be our very valuable partner. Of course, there are some numbers. You know, it's very impressive and we keep the double-digit growth of trade and also our investment to this country also dramatically increasing. What I want to take this opportunity also to say is our opportunities with all that grant gigantic plans and initiative, our opportunities are abundant and our challenges ahead also striking. So far, we have, for example, for China-Island, I know many of you are pushing for the direct air service. So far, we have not realized it and also visa facilitation improved but not yet to the level of both our people's hope. Conceptionally and from real practice, more and more people spoken to us that they want our exchanges and cooperation greatly enhanced but sometimes we still have on both sides bureaucracy, lack of real knowledge of each other or we don't have enough experience the talents for business and so on and so forth. All this also hindered the goodwill efforts from both sides. Fresh and more end-of-us are called for to improve the environment of our cooperation and the people-to-people exchanges. More dialogues, more visits and meetings are needed to strengthen our mutual understanding by overcoming old inertia and misconceptions. We need leadership from all sectors of the society to open the way wider for the relationship. We need the leaders like President today, all of you, to exercise your impact to the benefits of a better and stronger cooperation. It is for all those that make today's that makes today's event so valuable, so timely and so appreciative. 2019 will mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between our two countries. Our common future is really very, very bright and opportunities remained in our hands, in your hands. We are ready and keen as ever to work closely with Irish friends and the leaders, leading personalities across the board to elevate our ties and the cooperation to a new high. It is high time to seize the moment. Garh Mahakir.