Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and today we're going to talk about dry fire. We're going to talk specifically about rifle dry fire. Now for me, I break my rifle dry fire down into two different modules. The first one is what I call slick, or really just short. It's my short version of my rifle dry fire. My goal here was to have something that's under 20 minutes that I can kind of do and get in, get out, and get done, right? Because we don't all have an hour to devote to dry fire every day. I get that. We all have busy lives. I'm taking this from an idea. I read this from Paul Howe in one of his books. I can't remember which one now, but that when he was overseas, when he was on his teams in the military, he made his team dry fire for 20 minutes every day. And I read that and I remember thinking, man, 20 minutes, like that's, that's nothing, right? Like that's not a big deal. 20 minutes and that's like professional guys who are doing this stuff or just dry firing for 20 minutes a day. And I thought, okay, well, that's, that's reasonable. Like that's something we can do, right? That's a reasonable goal. You can find 20 minutes in your day to set aside and dry fire. That's, you can do that. You can sneak that in between meetings, right? So you can, you can work on that. So I wanted to design something around that, around the, that 20 minute-ish idea. I just did this again here and I timed it and I came out to 13 minutes and six seconds. Okay? And I'm going to show you that as we roll that in here, but not bad. Okay? 13 minutes, 15 minutes. I mean, in and out, just boom, right? So that's, I want to design that one part, which I'm going to show you now. It's the small part. And then I'm going to have a second video here where we're going to do the long part or the full kit, right? And that'll probably be closer to an hour of dry fire time. But I want to have those two options. One where you can, if you've got some time you want to dig in and get some dedicated thing and hit all everything, you can do that. Or if you just want to get the rifle out and just, and just do some ups and just practice the core skills you're going to need for that rifle, then you can do that. So that's how my thought, I'm breaking down my rifle dry fire. Okay? So really, you're just going to need, obviously, your rifle, you'll need that.  That's, that's really all you need to do that. So here's how I will break this down. I will do 15. I start, I have four starting positions, right? My first one is low ready. So I'll go 15 times from low ready and up on target and pull the trigger. What I'm aiming at here is a target that's probably about, it's a simulated distance of about 15 ish yards. My time for low ready is about 0.7, 0.8. And then I try to work down to 0.5 and try to kind of push it at the end there. Okay? So after that, after I accomplish my 15 ups from low ready, I will go from low carry. My time from low carry is about a second. It's kind of the time I'm working at about a second 0.9. That's kind of where I'm hovering around to get up and on target. After that, I will go from high ready, right? So looking just over the tip of the muzzle. And my time there is around a second right now. After high ready, I will go to high carry. And I will do 15 again from there from high carry. My time there is about a second and a half. Okay? So I've done 15 from low ready, 15 from low carry, 15 from high ready, 15 from high carry. And then the last thing I will do is I will do five speed reloads. And on my top, my part time is about three seconds. And after that, I will do 10 tack reloads. And my part time is for six seconds. When I'm doing these tack reloads and these speed reloads, I am just taking a magazine. I'm just sticking it in my back pocket. Because again, it's slick, right? I'm just running a slick setup. So I'm just shoving it in my back pocket. Again, I want this to be a low equipment deal so that I can just grab the rifle, grab two mags and a timer. And that's it. And I can go.  I can just literally hit the core fundamentals with the rifle right now. Side note here. So some people would say, Dylan, how come you're only doing five speed reloads and you're going to do 10 tack reloads? My thought behind that, my reasoning behind that is every combat veteran I've ever heard talk about it or talked to has said they have never speed reloaded their rifle in combat. That just hasn't been a thing. Apparently it doesn't happen very often. And I can see that. You got 28 pills in the dispenser, right? You're going to run out necessarily right away. So most often those guys tack reload the rifles. They're topping off, right? Think video games, right? First person shooter. What do you do? You burn someone down. You immediately hit that reload button, right? And you top a gun off for the next one. So in that regard, that's the theory that I'm operating under here is that if I have to run my rifle dry, it's probably a really bad day. And I'm probably not going to do that.  Additionally, if I was kitted out and my rifle went down for whatever reason, I would just transition to my pistol. So I wouldn't try to speed reload that unless I got a problem that's like 75 or 100 yards away or outside of my effective pistol range. In that case, then I wouldn't transition to my pistol. I just fixed my rifle. But that being said, that's my theory. That's why I'm not as concerned about rifle speed reloads, pistol speed reloads. That's a different deal. I think we all need to be very good at those because when those happen, you got to go. You got to fix the gun and people run their pistols dry. You see that in police shootings all the time. They run their pistols dry. So all that to say, my line of theory here is I'm probably not going to run the rifle dry. I still need to know how to speed reload it because that's a core skill you need to have. So I'm going to practice that, but I'm not going to put as much emphasis on it as I am on tachry loads, which I'm far more likely to use. So I want to make sure to have a smooth tachry load and tachry load the gun as efficiently and quickly as possible so that I can get the gun back up and I can be ready to move on to the next problem. So that's my theory behind why I only do five speed reloads and 10 tachry loads. Hope that's helpful. If you disagree, it's your dry fire routine. You can do whatever you want. This is just my dry fire routine.  I'd like to note that I kind of base my dry fire rifle routine, both the slick version and the full kit version, which we'll get to in the next video, off of Reed Hendricks' American Rifleman book. He has a dry fire routine in the back of his book, and that's kind of what he uses my model and my basis for building my dry fire routines, particularly the full kit. The full kit is almost that one verbatim, except that I copy, I add in a couple other things. It only took me 13 minutes as you see there. So maybe there's a couple other things I might throw in there, but right now I'm just going to try to run this because I'd rather just do a little bit every day than nothing and then just try to work in these big chunks of time. So at some time in the future here, I will do part two where I will do my full kit dry fire. And for me, when I do full kit, I get my plates on, I get my battle belt on, because I'm going to dedicate some time here. And so I get all suited up. And I think that takes about an hour. I haven't really timed it exactly yet. So we'll see what the time comes out when I, when I get to doing that one. So that's it. That's my slick dry fire setup. I would encourage you to do that. Grab your rifle, go down to your basement, get two empty mags, get a timer, even if it's just one on your phone, although eventually you should just buy a real timer. Okay.  It is going to make you a better shooter. If you want to be a better shooter, dry fire, we all know dry firing is the key to being a better shooter.  Until then, do brave deeds and endure.


Furious dad fights school after his daughter was expelled for the most outrageous reason.  But we all know that nowadays being a teenager is not as easy as it seems. Rebellion and defiance are common things in adolescence. For most teens who reach puberty and have their hormones rampant, this can be a difficult time to cope with. Keep looking to find out what Demetra had to deal with for the way she looked. Imagine your first day of high school. Ready to make friends, experience new things and have fun before you turn into an adult. But of course, high school isn't all roses. As a teen, when going to high school you find you have a lot in common with some people and not so much with another ones. Teenagers engage in a lot of risky behavior. Sometimes is because they lack the self-control to keep themselves from engaging in them. Alcohol use and cigarette smoking typically begin during these years, along with lots of other risky behaviors, like reckless driving. This was not the case for this straight A student that almost got expelled for the most outrageous reason. Click next to see what happened. Imagine starting your morning normally when something terrible happens that ruins your whole day. That was what happened to the real estate mogul and investment banker, Tonya Larkin when a phone call from his daughter's school confused and scared him. It was only when he arrived at the school that he understood what had happened and he immediately became furious. Make sure not to miss number 15, number 13 and number 9. It was an ordinary morning for Tonya Larkin, who after dropping off his daughter to school went to his work. However, he wasn't prepared for how his day would change after a phone call from his daughter's principal. Click next to find out what upset Larkin. His daughter was just an ordinary teen like every other and had never caused troubles in school before. So, Alarkin was very confused after the school's principal called and told him that he needed to come to the school immediately due to some serious trouble with his daughter. But what had happened? Click next to find out. So, after hearing this he rushed to his daughter's school to find out what had happened. When he arrived he found his daughter crying outside the principal's office and he couldn't understand what had upset her so much. However, when he spoke with the principal he found out and he was furious. As soon as the principal started talking, Tonya understood this wasn't his daughter's fault. He always has been by Demetri's side and was proud of his brilliant daughter. Who would have thought the school can expel a student for such an outrageous reason? As the conversation kept going, Tonya could not believe what he was listening. The principal told him that his daughter had to be expelled due to her inappropriate clothes that violated the school dress code. When Alarkin heard that he became furious with the school as he couldn't understand what was wrong with his daughter's appearance. Alarkin's daughter Demetri was very upset and embarrassed and she couldn't understand what was wrong with her clothes, as they weren't any different from those which the other girls were wearing. Her supposedly scanless and dress code-breaking clothing was a blue romper that was perfect for the high temperatures of the season. Demetri chose this outfit in order to be comfortable as the temperatures were really high that day. The temperature was very high, almost 90 degrees and she didn't have any idea that her choice would cause so much trouble. The teacher sent her to the principal's office even before the very first class ended. Tonya was stunned when the principal, instead of acknowledging her mistake, gave them a temporary solution. So, the principal, in order to give closure to the issue told Tonya that he could either take his daughter home or bring her a new outfit. Even though Tonya was very upset with the principal and believed that all of this was unreasonable, he chose to bring his daughter the new outfit. However, that was only the start. The principal claimed that according to the school dress code, her shorts had to pass the fingertip test. In this test, the thumbs have to be above the hemline of the shorts, skirts or dresses a girl wears. The principal claimed that his daughter didn't pass it and therefore she would have to change clothes. Click next to see her outfit. This was the outfit that according to the principal, didn't pass the fingertip test. Tonya couldn't find what was wrong with his daughter's outfit. But in an attempt to help her, he went back home and brought different clothes for Demetra to wear. He thought this was going to be enough, but the principal's reaction shocked both of them. Because it was a really hot day, Alarkin wanted his daughter to be comfortable, so the clothes of his choice were a pair of denim shorts along with a plain tank top. He was sure that this outfit would be appropriate. But for their surprise, when the principal saw it, she wasn't pleased. She told them that once again this outfit was an aproprite and Tonya was furious. He demanded to see with his own eyes if his daughter would pass the test, which she did. He couldn't believe that even this outfit wasn't appropriate and demanded the truth from the principal. What was really the issue for his daughter's suspension? However, when he heard the truth from the principal, he became even angrier. So, why did the principal insisted that her outfit was inappropriate even if it passed the test? Tonya was outraged. He demanded explanations and didn't want to hear any other excuses. He told the principal that many other girls seemed to violate the dress code, but none of them was expelled. So, the principal decided to tell Alarkin the real reason behind all this. She claimed that Demetra's appearance was distracting her male classmate's attention and that was why she had to change her outfit. After hearing this, Tonya lost his temper as he couldn't believe the reason why his little girl was punished. The principal told Tony that if he didn't want to take his daughter home for the day, he should bring her a pair of leggings. However, it was really hot outside and this seemed like a punishment for the little girl who couldn't be comfortable on a hot day due to her male classmates. Tonya couldn't let this pass. Moreover, when Demetra heard the real reason behind her punishment, she started accusing the principal of having double standards. She said that the dress code rules appeal only to girls. Boys only have one rule which is not to wear hats in the classroom, but they wear them anyway and never get punished. So, when her dad heard what his daughter had to say, he demanded to see the school dress code rules. Then he decided to make a poll and asked his daughter's girlfriends what was their opinion of the dress code rules. Everyone said that they were unfair and they prevented them from being comfortable on a hot day contrary to their male classmates. After that, Tony knew that he had to do something. So, he contacted the local news and arranged to appear there in order to talk about the outdated school dress code that forced the girls to be uncomfortable on a really hot day to not distract their male classmates. He claimed that the parents should be those who would choose what would be comfortable enough and appropriate for school and not some outdated and unfair school dress code rules. Many agreed with his idea and admitted that what had happened to his daughter was really unfair. Those who were on Tony's side were furious with how schools were treating and punishing young girls due to what they were wearing on a hot day, even though the boys could wear whatever they liked. But, some didn't agree with them. Many claimed that there should be dress code rules because otherwise, the teenagers would wear whatever they liked appropriate or not. This would cause the distraction of the other students and the situation would be out of control. Finally, the school agreed that the rules needed to be changed and started working on some new rules that might be friendlier to the female students on a hot day. Let's hope that the new rules will be fairer towards everyone.


I have another candle and I have my lighter. My alarm's still there and I'm probably gonna set it on, but you get all the candles. What's going on? You're welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi, hello, my name is Lydia and I make mental health videos here on YouTube pretty much every day. Today's video is another tag video. So today I'm doing the PTSD tag. I didn't know this was a thing. I did not know this was a thing. But we jump into the video. I quickly want to add this. I'm not a professional nor am I trying to be a professional. I am simply someone talking from experience and sharing my own story. I've got no intentions. I'm being a professional and nothing I say in this video or any of my other videos should be taken instead of professional advice. If you are struggling, please reach out for support. And with that, let's get on with the video. Number one, what is the cause of your PTSD? So I'm diagnosed with complex PTSD. What triggered off PTSD for me was witnessing suicide and then exposure to death. I kind of remembered all my childhood after that. It's kind of hard to explain but my childhood was traumatic. There was a lot that went on.  I've made a video before talking about this. And then this year I lost my friend to suicide. Suicide for me is a big trigger and life was hard with it. It is hard. Number two, when were you diagnosed and are you in treatment? I was diagnosed with PTSD when I was 17 I think. I think when I was 17 I was diagnosed. Am I in treatment? I take medication at the moment. I'm not currently doing any therapy. My medication is for a variety of different mental health issues. And I've talked about it in previous videos. But just a quick rundown of what I take. I take vanilla vaccine, tracidone, typaene, tonazopam, lorazopam and ZopiGloin. I'm not going to give explanations as to why I take that combination. I just do. Three, who knows about it? The internet. Everyone. The internet. My mum, my grandparent, everyone in my life knows about it. What are your symptoms? So, I have flashbacks. I have nightmares. I have very intense anxiety. It caused my depression. You know, it's a mind field. Symptoms are. It really is. I say the biggest ones to me are flashbacks, depression, anxiety. And my anxiety comes a lot around getting trained, going out in public and having friends and getting close to people. That's like a lot of what the anxiety is. Number five, what is the hardest part of living with it? The hardest part for me about living with it... I'm getting cold and I'm in the middle of filming a video. The hardest part about living with it is knowing that nothing can change it. It's there. I'm not ready to do therapy for it. And I think that for me, that's the hardest thing. The flashbacks can be very debilitating. Coping skills. So, for me, I do rely on medication for it. I'm not going to be around the bush, I do. But distraction, really. Distraction is the main and only coping skill I can really think of from the top of my head. Avoiding triggers, you know, a lot of different things. A misconception of PTSD that only people who get a war can have it or that people who young can't have it, that is one of the biggest misconceptions and one of the things that irritates me the most is when someone turns around to me and says, you're too young to have PTSD, you didn't get a war, you can't have PTSD. It's like, since when did mental illness have an ache? Like, please point to me in the DSM, the Diagnostic Manual, where it states that to have PTSD, you have to be a certain age. What would you like to say to others? Question number eight, sorry. What would you like to say to others with a condition? One, you're not alone, but it's hard. It is really hard to deal with and live with and I think this video shows that. But here's a comment. So, I've got this video. Thank you for watching. If you are new here, make sure you hit the subscribe button. My left ear has just gone. Anyway, I'm getting into the video with that. Bye, guys.


So, Evans, why are you here again, mate? Come on! It's a good question. A question I've been asking myself a lot. Yeah, after Western States, I've recovered really well and just wanted to give myself the opportunity to be on another start line this year and it's very difficult turning down a place at UTMB. It's such an incredible race and an amazing atmosphere and you get a race against the best in the world in some of the most beautiful mountains in the world. So, yeah, I'm here to have a great time. What is your motivation? Because, you know, it doesn't get much better than winning Western States. Couldn't you just live off that for a year or two and then come back and go for UTMB another year? What's driving you? I think, for me, no one's done it. No male has done it before. No one's finished on the podium in both races in the same year. I've got the closest with... It's within 12 months. It's like 10 months apart. And, yeah, I feel... I've just come off a really good training block in team and, yeah, I'm just super motivated to race and my season's ending on Sunday, regardless of the result. And then, yeah, I can then just relax and enjoy it but, yeah, I feel great. I'm loving my running. I'm completely injury free and I'm really motivated to, yeah, see how far I can push and... Yeah, that's why I'm here. When you sit back, do you ever sit back and think, gosh, I remember that bet with my mates to go and do the Sahara and where you've come from there? I mean, do you ever contemplate that? Yeah, I do think a little bit sort of how different things could have been had I not done it and could be leading a completely different life and, yeah, I guess you never know what avenue you're going to go down and, yeah, it's pretty... I think I always would have ended up doing something like this, testing myself. I needed something outside of regular work to really be able to push myself physically and mentally. So, yeah, I think I would have got here maybe a year or so later but, yeah, for me it's still pretty wild and pretty crazy to be here.  Yeah. I mean, so that's five years ago now, so you're not exactly a newbie, are you? No, yeah, that's actually what I keep telling myself. I always say, oh, yeah, I've not been here for a while and then you've realised, yeah, the first time I raced here was 2017 and CCC and then came back in 18 and improved on my performance and, yeah, this is now the fourth year at a UTMB race and, yeah, they come around quickly and, yeah. What's going on with your data?  I mean, I've been seeing your videos where you're sticking needles in your arm, analysing your blood, oxygen, saturation. What's all that about? Do you enjoy that stuff? Yeah, I think there's a certain amount of data collection that can be really useful as long as it's then analysed correctly. I think a lot of the time people, and your watch does the 95% of it, but people then just don't use it the way that they could and there's a lot of stuff that you can collect that's useful but there's also a lot of stuff you can collect that's not that useful, not that relevant and for us, because we've started collecting the data now, we don't actually need to collect that much, but you can sort of, then compare yourself to where you were at a certain point in training last year, so it either gives you confidence or it gives you a bit of a reality check that, okay, I'm able to do this or I'm not able to do this. So, yeah, I think it's really interesting, but then also you can just for me now, like my training is so specific, I'm not doing any training just for the sake of it. Everything's leading to a race, whether it's Western States or UTMB and I want to make sure that the training that I'm doing is actually working, rather than getting to race day and then realizing only using race day as a marker for is my training working. I want to be able to measure how things are going, maybe not on a day-to-day basis, but definitely by a week-to-week basis, so that there are no surprises on race day and I know what I'm capable of doing, certainly for the first 10 hours and then after that, sort of the muscles switch off and the mind switches on. Do you ever just leave your watch at home and just go out for these days? No. I don't either. No, I don't. For me, it's sort of, it doesn't, I'm definitely not governed by my watch and I listen to my body as much as I can. Yeah, using a watch is just tracking the load, like it's just helping build the overall pitch of exactly what's going on because it all adds up, like for the final two weeks for Western States are exactly the same. I've done almost exactly the same load and burnt the same amount of kilojoules of energy in the last two weeks before UTMB because that worked and it might not work here, but it's just trying to build this blueprint of what works. You had a plan for Western States which didn't necessarily, I mean I know you're racing, but it didn't necessarily involve the other runners. You had a time in your head correct me if I'm wrong. You had a time in your head that you thought was going to be the winning time and you kind of set out to go for that. Is there a similar strategy, if that's correct is there a similar strategy going into this race? Yeah, that was correct going into the race, but then the snow section from Olympic Valley to Robinson Flat was really slow. We were like 25 minutes slower than I thought it was going to be, so at that point all of the timings kind of went out the window, so I just ran at sort of the pace that I felt comfortable. It was pushing, but it was comfortable and that sort of ended up me and Dakota Jones separating from the pack and the plan was always to pick it up sort of between Forest Hill and the river and regardless of what people were doing, if I was on my own I'd have done the same thing and yeah managed to get a six-minute lead going into Rutgers Jacket River Crossing and then yeah just sort of kept my foot on the gas till six kilometres to go and then so just relaxed a little bit as I had a 26 minute lead and just thought right let's just back off and let's just carry this one home. So we know what your plans are for this race, we know you're going for the week. What's happening after the season's over, what's the next step for you? Regardless of what happens on Sunday, what's the next step? Yeah I think for me it's going home, I've definitely not enjoyed my Western States result at all. I've not celebrated with friends or family because it was pretty much back straight to the grind and I think you definitely need to take time to appreciate things that you've done and you put a lot of effort into and done really well. My wife's a pro triathlete and is in the process of trying to qualify for Paris Olympics so I'll do what I can to help there.  You're going Zwift? Loving Zwift, yeah using Zwift both on the bike and on the treadmill which is great. You've got to come and run with us again man. It would be very cool, I would love to. I might race in cross-country, try and qualify for European cross-country championships.  Yes but the marathon's too fast I can't run 208, 30. There are some other events on the track that I think I could run or get pretty close to. A lot of it's not dictated by me I have to race on the trails so yeah if I can balance things out it's definitely, I definitely have an itch to scratch there but yeah my main effort will be getting so for my wife as well prepared as she can for her Olympic trials. Western Sates again next year? Very difficult to say no as M1 but we'll see. Brilliant, cheers man. Thanks very much.


human destiny. In the last five years the world has become more interconnected than ever but in many ways it's becoming even more fragmented and polarized. China has made significant economic and social achievements under your leadership. In the first three quarters of 2021 China's economy grew by over nine percent. You have achieved a historic goal to become a moderately prosperous society in all respects. Mr. President I strongly echo your remarks in 2017 that mankind has made progress by surmounting difficulties and when encountering difficulties we should join hands and rise to the challenge. I believe this is the best time for leaders to come together and work jointly for the world to become more inclusive more sustainable and more prosperous. We now welcome His Excellency Xi Jinping president of the People's Republic of China. Professor Klaus Schwab ladies and gentlemen friends greetings to you all. It is my pleasure to attend this virtual session of the World Economic Forum. In two weeks time China will celebrate the advent of spring in the Lunar New Year the year of the tiger. In Chinese culture tiger symbolizes bravery and strength. As the Chinese people often refer to spirited dragon and dynamic tiger or soaring dragon and leaping tiger to meet the severe challenges facing humanity we must add winds to the tiger and act with the courage and strength of the tiger to overcome all obstacles on our way forward. We must do everything necessary to clear the shadow of the pandemic and boost economic and social recovery and development so that the sunshine of hope may light up the future of humanity. The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in the century. These changes not limited to a particular moment event country or region represent the profound and sweeping changes of our times. As changes of the times combined with the once in a century pandemic the world finds itself a new period of turbulence and transformation. 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Major economies should see the world as one community, think in a more systematic way, increase policy transparency and information sharing, and coordinate the objectives, intensity, and pace of fiscal and monetary policies so as to prevent the world economy from plummeting again. Major developed countries should adopt responsible economic policies, manage policy spillovers, and avoid severe impacts on developing countries. International economic and financial institutions should play their constructive role to pull global consensus, enhance policy synergy, and prevent systemic risks. Third, we need to bridge the development divide and revitalize global development. The process of global development is suffering from severe disruption, entailing more outstanding problems like a widening north-south gap, divergent recovery trajectories, development fault lines, and a technological divide. The Human Development Index has declined for the first time in 30 years. The world's poor population has increased by more than 100 million. Nearly 800 million people live in hunger. Difficulties are mounting in food security, education, employment, medicine, health, and other areas important to people's livelihoods. Some developing countries have fallen back into poverty and instability due to the pandemic. Many developed countries are also living through a hard time. No matter what difficulties may come our way, we must adhere to a people-centered philosophy of development. Play development and livelihoods front and center in global macro policies. Realize the UN's 2030 agenda for sustainable development and build greater synergy among existing mechanisms of development cooperation to promote balanced development worldwide. We need to uphold the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, promote international cooperation on climate change in the context of development, and implement the outcomes of COP26 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Developed economies should take the lead in honoring their emissions reduction responsibilities, deliver on their commitment of financial and technological support, and create the necessary conditions for developing countries to address climate change and achieve sustainable development. Last year I put forward a global development initiative at the UN General Assembly to draw international attention to the pressing challenges faced by developing countries. The initiative is a public good open to the whole world which aims to form synergy with the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and boost common development across the world. China stands ready to work with all partners to jointly translate the initiative into concrete actions and make sure that no country is left behind in this process. Fourth, we need to discard Cold War mentality and seek peaceful coexistence and wing-wing outcomes. Our world today is far from being tranquil. Rhetorics that stoke hatred and prejudice about acts of containment, suppression, or confrontation arising thereof, do all harm not the least good to world peace and security. History has proved time and again the confrontation does not solve problems. It only invites catastrophic consequences. Protectionism and unilateralism can protect no one. They ultimately hurt the interests of others as well as one's own. Even worse are the practices of hegemony and bullying which run counter to the tide of history. Naturally, countries have divergences and disagreements between them. Yet a zero-sum approach that enlarges one's own gain at the expense of others will not help. Acts of single-mindedly building exclusive yards with high walls or parallel systems of enthusiastically putting together exclusive small circles or blocks that polarize the world, of overstretching the concept of national security to hold back economic and technological advances of other countries, and of fanning ideological antagonism and politicizing or weaponizing economic, scientific, and technological issues will gravely undercut international efforts to tackle common challenges. The right way forward for humanity is peaceful development and wing-wing cooperation. Different countries and civilizations may prosper together on the basis of respect for each other and seek common ground and wing-wing outcomes by setting aside differences. We should follow the trend of history, work for a stable international order, advocate common values of humanity, and build a community with a shared future for mankind. We should choose dialogue over confrontation, inclusiveness over exclusion, and stand against all forms of unilateralism, protectionism, hegemony, or power politics. Ladies and gentlemen, friends, last year the Communist Party of China celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding. Through a century of tenacious struggle, the CPC has rallied and led the Chinese people in accomplishing remarkable achievements in the advancement of the nation and the betterment of people's lives. We have realized the moderately possible society of all respects and won the battle against poverty, both according to plan, and found a historic solution to ending absolute poverty. Now China is marching on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects. China will stay committed to pursuing high quality development. The Chinese economy enjoys a good momentum overall. Last year our GDP grew by around eight percent, achieving the dual target of fairly high growth and relatively low inflation. Shifts in the domestic and international economic environment have brought tremendous pressure. By the fundamentals of the Chinese economy, characterized by strong resilience, enormous potential, and long-term sustainability, remain unchanged. We have every confidence in the future of China's economy. The wealth of a country is measured by the abundance of its people. Thanks to considerable economic growth, the Chinese people are living much better lives. Nonetheless, we are soberly aware that to meet people's aspiration for an even better life, we still have much hard work to do in the long run. China has made it clear that we strive for more visible and substantive progress in the well-rounded development of individuals and the common prosperity of the entire population. We are working hard on all fronts to deliver the score. The common prosperity we desire is not egalitarianism. To use an analogy, we will first make the pie bigger and then divide it properly through reasonable institutional arrangements. As a rising tide lifts all boats, everyone will get a fair share from development and development gains will benefit all our people in a more substantial and equitable way. China will stay committed to reform and opening up. For China, reform and opening up is always a working process. Whatever change in the international landscape, China will always hold high the banner of reform and opening up. China will continue to let the market play a decisive role in resource allocation and see to it that the government better plays its role. We will be steadfast in consolidating and developing the public sector, just as we are steadfast in encouraging, supporting and guiding the development of the non-public sector. We will build a unified, open, competitive and orderly market system where all businesses enjoy equal status before the law and have equal opportunities in the marketplace. All types of capital are welcome to operate in China in compliance with laws and regulations and play a positive role for the development of the country. China will continue to expand high standard opening up, steadily advance institutional opening up that covers rules, management and standards, deliver national treatment for foreign businesses and promote high quality Belt and Road cooperation. With the entry into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on the 1st of January this year, China will faithfully fulfill its obligations and deepen economic and trade ties with other RCEP parties. China will also continue to work for the joining of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement with a view to further integrating into the regional and global economy and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results. China will stay committed to promoting ecological conservation. As I have said many times, we should never grow the economy at the cost of resource depletion and environmental degradation, which is like draining a pond to get fish, nor should we sacrifice growth to protect the environment, which is like climbing a tree to catch fish, guided by a philosophy that clean waters and green mountains are just as valuable as gold and silver. China has carried out holistic conservation and systematic governance of its mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts. We do everything we can to conserve the ecological system, intensify pollution prevention and control, and improve the living and working environment for our people. China is now putting in place the world's largest national parks system. Last year, we successfully hosted COP15 to the Convention on Biological Diversity, contributing China's share to a clean and beautiful world. Achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality are the intrinsic requirements of China's own high-quality development and a solemn pledge to the international community. China will honor its word and keep working toward its goal. We have unveiled an action plan for carbon dioxide peaking before 2030 to be followed by implementation plans for specific sectors such as energy, industry, and construction. China now has the world's biggest carbon market and biggest clean power generation system. The installed capacity of renewable energy has exceeded 1 billion kilowatts, and the construction of wind and photovoltaic power stations with a total installed capacity of 100 million kilowatts is well underway. Carbon peak and carbon neutrality cannot be realized overnight. Through solid and steady steps, China will pursue an orderly phase down of traditional energy in the cause of finding reliable substitution in new energy. This approach, which combines phasing out the old and bringing in the new, will ensure steady economic and social development. China will also actively engage in international cooperation on climate and jointly work for a complete transition to a greener economy and society. Ladies and gentlemen, friends, Davos is known as a heaven for winter sports. The Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will open soon. We are confident that China will present a streamlined, safe, and splendid games to the world. The official motto for Beijing 2022 is together for a shared future. Indeed, let us join hands with full confidence, work together for a shared future. Thank you. Mr. President, thank you for sharing with us your thoughts on the Agenda 2022. As you noted, we must unite all our forces in the pursuit of a more resilient, more inclusive, and more sustainable global economic development. In your speech, you highlighted that in this journey we must always remind ourselves that despite the different views we may hold on various issues, we belong to a single global humanity, becoming ever more interconnected. As we take the path forward, dialogue and cooperation leading to joint solutions are the key, the only key for humanity living in peace and prosperity. On behalf of all the participants who have joined this opening session, I would like to thank the President of the People's Republic of China, His Excellency Xi Jinping, for this important dialogue. And if I may add a personal note, I wish you and the Chinese people all the best for the year of Tiger. And we wish you also great success for the forthcoming Olympic Games.