同志们,朋友们: 我国现行宪法,从一九八二年十二月四日第五届全国人民代表大会第五次会议通过并公布施行以来,已经二十年了。今天,在全国上下认真学习贯彻党的十六大精神的热潮中,我们隆重纪念宪法公布施行二十周年,在全社会进一步树立宪法意识和宪法权威,切实保证宪法的贯彻实施,这对于推动全党和全国各族人民为 Comrades and friends: It has been 20 years since the current Constitution of our country was adopted and promulgated at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People’s Congress on December 4, 1982. Today, in the upsurge of earnestly studying and implementing the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the CPC throughout the country, we solemnly commemorated the twentieth anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the Constitution, further establishing the constitutional awareness and constitutional authority throughout the whole society and earnestly ensuring the implementation of the Constitution. The party and the people of all ethnic groups in China are