Chinese consider themselves lucky because they can celebrate the New Year twice (with double the holiday entitlement). They look forward to the Western New Year on Dec. 31 and then to their traditional New Year and Family Festival (Chunjie), which begins on the night of Feb. 12 this year. But President Xi Jinping speaks to them directly only once – on Western New Year’s Day – via TV from his office in secretive Zhongnanhai – the party and government headquarters. His New Year’s speech is a classic in China.