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串讲资料第三章（The third chapter construes the data） Your position: 365 self review guide text notes Chuanjiang economics periodicals trade knowledge readings latest information on Chuanjiang chapter third 2006-9-15 [large, medium and small] Lesson Three Beijing Rising I. terminology: 1.economic heavyweight, an important economic power 2.commercial hub business center 3.Per capita per capita 4.Gross, National, Product gross national product 5.punitive import tariff punitive import tariffs 6.securities securities 7.real estate market real estate market 8. Greater China, trade bloc, Greater China trade group 9.conglomerate cross industry company 10.consortium International Consortium 11.GATT:General, Agreement, on, Tariffs, and, Trade, GATT Two. Definitions of words: 1.jockey:move 2.is, bustling, with:is, filled, with 3.giddy:dizzy; euphoric 4.farfetched:improbable; incredible 5.clear:earn a net profit 6.deal, a, hard, blow, t, strike, heavily 7.rung:level 8.retaliation:return, of, ill, treatment, for, ill, treatment, revenge; reprisal 9.career, out, of, control:run, out, of, control Three, sentence translation: 1., A, farfetched, prediction? The new American administration doesn t think so. Bill Clinton has appointed China hands to top Asia posts at the state and Treasury departments. When critics called the appointments a slight to Japan, the leading Pacific economic power, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman explained the administration s reasoning:by early in the next century, he said, China may replace Japan in importance to the U.S. as an economic partner. Japan recognizes the rise of China. As a warning shot in an intensifying rivalry, Tokyo last week put punitive import tariffs on Chinese steel. A farfetched prediction? The new US administration does not take it this way. Clinton has been appointed an important position in Chinas State Department and treasury department in Asia, and critics say the appointment has snubbed japan. The largest Pacific economi