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People throughout China have reacted with approval to VIce- President Hu Jintao's speech on the subject of the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, according to Xinhua news agency. Workers at key industrial plants and students at universities said it was important to safeguard the country's stable situation and turn their "indignation" into the determination to make the country stronger and more prosperous.
Excerpts from report by Xinhua news agency
Beijing, 9th May: The important televised speech given by Hu Jintao, Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the CCP {Chinese Communist Party} Central Committee and vice-president of the state, on the US-led NATO attack on the Chinese embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia {FRY} with missiles has evoked strong repercussions all over China. Cadres and the masses in various localities universally held that Comrade Hu Jintao's speech had voiced the common thinking of the people throughout the country, and that, proceeding from the fundamental interests of the state, it is imperative to take the initiative to safeguard the overall stable situation, turn the great indignation in their hearts into the motivation to build the motherland, and build the motherland into a more prosperous and stronger country.
In Beijing, people from all walks of life gave up their day off to watch attentively the important televised speech given by Comrade Hu Jintao on behalf of the party Central Committee and the Chinese government. Luo Bingsheng, president of the Shoudu...