敬爱的邓小平同志离开我们已经7年半了。可以告慰他老人家的是,他为我们擘画的我国现代化建设的宏伟蓝图正在逐步变为美好的现实,第一步、第二步发展目标已经实现,人民生活总体上达到小康水平,我们正全面建设惠及十几亿人口的更高水平的小康社会,信心百倍地朝着第三步战略目标迈进;他生前念兹在兹的祖国统一大业已经取得重大进展,香港、澳门已经回归祖国并保持着繁荣稳定,我们正为最终解决台湾问题而努力;他带领我们党开创的 Dear Comrade Deng Xiaoping has left us for seven and a half years. We can comfort him that the grand blueprint of our country’s modernization that he has drawn for us is gradually becoming a beautiful reality. The first and second steps have already been achieved. The people’s life as a whole has reached a well-to-do level and we are now fully Building a well-to-do society at a higher level that will benefit billions of people will move with confidence toward the third-step strategic goal. During his lifetime, Rezedshin made great strides in the reunification of the motherland and Hong Kong and Macao have already returned to their motherland Prosperous and stable, and we are working hard to finally solve the Taiwan issue; he led our party to create