第4周 011 Gary Locke on US-China Commercial relations.docVIP

2014-2015上学期 初级口译 第四周 英语同语复述训练 PAGE1 / NUMPAGES1 Remarks at U.S.-China Business Council Luncheon Commerce Secretary Gary Locke January 13, 2011 - 2:30pm Thank you very much John for the introduction and thank you for the great work that you and the US-China Business Council do day in and day out to foster this very important relationship. I do want to acknowledge Jim Sasser in the audience here, former US ambassador to China. He ought to be really up here talking really from his vantage point of his years of service in the United States Senate and then also from his years of serving in China. Ambassador, please stand up, so we can recognize you as well for your great service to this country and the US-China relationship. We are today less than a week away from an important State visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao. More than two decades ago, on my first trip to mainland China, I could not imagine that the U.S.-China relationship would eventually become so consequential. Nor could I have imagined a scene like we witnessed a few days ago: Defense Secretary Gates joining together with his Chinese counterpart to stress the need for stronger military ties between China and the United States. In 1989, on that first trip to China, I came in from Shanghai’s airport on a rickety, Russian-made bus, and stepped into that city’s dimly lit streets into a world vastly different from the one I left in the U.S. The streets were swarming with bicycles at 10 p.m. – young men with their dates riding on the handlebars, grandparents pedaling to the market, boys and girls with white-knuckle grips on their parents’ shoulders. Bikes everywhere. Shanghai then was a very gritty, industrial city filled with nothing but low-rise buildings. There were no skyscraper and very few automobiles. There was little sign of what was to come. Today, Shanghai’s skyline is dotted by more than 400 skyscrapers. If you go to the Shanghai World Financial Center – one of the tallest b