同传练习稿—采访杨澜.docxVIP

Host: Yang Lan is chairwoman of Sun Media Group(阳光媒体集团), which has other businesses in media, online and more. I am very pleased to have her here at this table for the first time. Welcome.Yang Lan: Thanks you, Charlie. Thank you for having me.Host: Tell me how this started for you.Yang Lan: It all started exactly 20 years ago, when I was graduating from college. At that time, the national television had its first open audition, for college graduates for its prime time variety show(综艺节目), called Zheng Da Variety Show. That was a show to introduce sightseeing around the world to the Chinese audience, who at that time, 99% of our population, didnt even have a passport. So it was a brand new exposure to the outside world, when China was opening up.Host: Have you thought about that kind of career before that?Yang Lan: No, not at all. My major in college was English literature and language in Beijing Foreign Studies University. When I was offered this opportunity, out of curiosity, I went, as well as another 1,000 girls. After rounds of auditions, I believe, its after 7 rounds of auditions; I became the last one who survived it. So it gave me a really good start into broadcasting television. And the first show I hosted was a prime-time nation-wide show, which had an audience of 200 million every week. I did it for four years. That really gave me a pretty good start in the career.Host: Its stunning to hear those numbers. From an American television perspective. I once did an interview with the Minister of Culture from China here. It was in Washington, where they had held a Chinese festival at the Kennedy Center. So they asked me: Could they re-broadcast it in China? I said of course at the interview. They said you probably would reach 300 million people, which was more people than I have ever seen or anything I have done in my entire life.Yang Lan: But we have 1.3 billion.Host: So then you began to…Yang Lan: And then I quit my job to come to the States for a post-graduate