商务翻译（英译汉）Unit 10 China’s Big Plan.pptVIP

【Translation】 After years of prospering as the world’s workshop, China now wants to be its laboratory as well. “Innovation” has become a national buzzword, and Chinese leaders have been tossing it into their speeches since the beginning of the year, when President Hu Jintao started an ambitious campaign to drive China’s economy further up the value chain. In launching their “National Medium- and Long-Term Programme for Scientific and Technological Development （2006-2020）”, Mr Hu, chairman Wen Jiabao, the Prime Minister, and other top officials have vowed to spend more on science and technology, and to insist on business reforms. Their goal is to move China beyond its dependence on natural resources and cheap labour, and stake its place among the economies that depend on education and information technology. The plan also calls for an increase in research and development spending from its current 1.23% of GDP to 2.5% by 2020, putting China in the same range as OECD countries’ current scores. According to Denis Simon of the State University of New York’s Levin Institute, who advises the Chinese government on science policy, this move comes just in time. “If China doesn’t do this right,” he says, “it risks becoming a good 20th-century industrial economy just when it needs to figure out how to be a 21st-century knowledge-based economy.” One huge obstacle is the nature of China’s educational system, which stresses conformity and does little to foster independent thinking. Confucian philosophy reveres the teacher above all. More innovative Western economies operate under Aristotle’s maxim: “I love my teacher Plato greatly, but I love truth more.” 【Version for Reference】 中国在新世纪的勃勃雄心 中国作为“世界工场”，多年来发展蒸蒸日上，但现在它也希望成为“世界实验室”。“创新”已经成为举国上下一个时髦词。今年年初，胡锦涛主席启动了一项雄心勃勃的规划，旨在推动中国经济进一步与价值链接轨。从那以后，中国领导人在讲话中就经常提到“创新”一词。 在推出《国家中长期科学与技术发展规划纲要（2006—2020）》后，胡锦涛主席、温家宝总理和其他高级官员都许诺要加大科技投入，并坚持行业改革。他们的目标是推动中国不再过于依赖自然资源和廉价劳动力，并投身于依靠教育和信息技术的经济体系之中。 此规划还要求到2020年对研究和开发的投入从现在占国