Durian Daily 17: China's National Day

China's premier vows to build prosperous society in National Day speech

BEIJING : Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao kicked off the country's week-long National Day holiday on Friday, pledging to build a prosperous society and promote peaceful reunification with Taiwan. "Standing now at a new starting point of history, our country is marching forward toward the grand goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all round way," Wen told a crowd of dignitaries at the Great Hall of the People.
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Today is the great founding day for the modern People's Republic of China. Durian Daily, unfortunately is unaware of this great day until the newspaper is flipped, the television is watched. The news press big gigantic prints and the repetition of the Nation's National anthem in the background of a news report. Anything that fails to go unnotice fails. Being ignorant about National Day in all forms, Durian Daily fails to continue to be so due to the heavy media coverage on a land faraway, yet close to the heart. It just seems like the island nation is about to blast fireworks in hail and celebrations for their giant counterpart.