驻英国大使刘晓明在英国威尔士卡迪夫商业俱乐部午宴上的主旨演讲.docVIP

驻英国大使刘晓明在英国威尔士卡迪夫商业俱乐部午宴上的主旨演讲 Keynote Speech by H.E. Ambassador Liu Xiaoming at the Lunch Hosted by the Cardiff Business Club 2011年3月7日 希尔顿· 7 March 2011, Hilton Cardiff Hotel 尊敬的罗-贝德勋爵， 尊敬的格拉摩根大学校长莫里斯勋爵， 尊敬的戴维斯主席， 各位企业家朋友们， 女士们、先生们： Lord Rowe-Beddoe, Lord Morris, Mr Gerald Davies, Vice-Chancellor Julie Lydon, Business leaders, Ladies and gentlemen, 很高兴在大地回春、万物复苏的三月再次来到以田园风光著称的威尔士。英语谚语说：“三月风、四月雨，带来五月的花”。我希望我此次访问威尔士也能带来一股“中国风”，并且使中国和威尔士的合作友谊之花芬芳盛开。 It is a great pleasure for me to come back to Wales during March, a month of budding spring. As the saying goes, “March wind and April showers brings forth May flowers”. I hope my visit will bring Wales 威尔士以龙为象征，中国更是龙的国度。说起中国的经济发展，有人就形容是巨龙腾飞。的确，中国这个具有13亿人口的大国，30多年来创下了年均增长10%的“中国速度”；去年超过了日本成为世界第二大经济体。 Just as here in Wales you have your red dragon, China is known as the country of the dragon. Our economic growth is sometimes described as the dragon roaring. Indeed, the last 3 decades have seen China roaring ahead with double digit growth. This resulted in China overtaking Japan as the world’s second largest economy. 中国经济发展有没有什么成功经验？我想，最关键是两条。一是政策上实行改革开放，解放了思想，解放了生产力，并从中国自己的国情出发，走适合自己发展的道路。二是人民辛勤劳动，奋发图强。前年底，“中国工人”作为唯一群体入选美国《时代》杂志的年度人物。当时《时代》评价说，中国经济带领世界走向经济复苏，这些功劳首先要归功于中国千千万万勤劳坚韧的普通工人。去年，“中国工人”再次作为一个群体荣登美国知名财经杂志《财智》评选的2010年“全球最具影响力人物”排行榜，“中国工人”被该杂志评为世界经济中最强大的力量之一。 So, what has made the China’s success possible? There have been a number of contributing factors. First and foremost, our reform and opening-up have unleashed creative and productive forces that have steered the country onto a route of development which suits our national conditions, along with the hard work and ingenuity of the Chinese people. “The Chinese Worker” was named by Time magazine as “Person of the Year 2009”, the only group of people to have shared the title. The magazine commented, “the tens of millions of workers ... are leading the world to economic recovery”. The Chinese workers were also listed as one of the World’s Most Influential Players in 2