45. Challenge of the 21st Century
45. 21世纪的挑战
The American people deeply admire China for its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy and the arts, to science and technology. We remember well our strong partnership in World War II. Now we see China at a moment in history when your glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even greater promise of your future.
在几千年的历史长河中，中国为人类文化、宗教、哲学、艺术和科技做出了贡献，美国人民非常钦佩你们。我们铭记着第二次世界大战期间中美两国牢固的伙伴关系。现在我们看到，中国处于历史性时刻：能和你们光辉灿烂的过去相提并论的，只有贵国目前气势磅碎的改革和更加美好的未来。
Just three decades ago, China was virtually shut off from the world. Now, China is a member of more than 1,000 international organizations---enterprises that affect everything from air travel to agricultural development. You have opened your nation to trade and investment on a large scale. Today, 40,000 young Chinese study in the United States, with hundreds of thousands more learning in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
仅仅在30年前，中国还与世界隔绝。现在，中国参加了从航空旅行到农业开发等领域的1，000多个国际组织。贵因为大规模贸易和投资敞开了大门。如今，有40，000多年轻的中国学生在美国留学，还有数十万中国学生在亚洲、非洲、欧洲和拉美国家留学。
Your social and economic transformation has been even more remarkable, moving from a closed command economic system to a driving, increasingly market-based and driven economy, generating two decades of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and outside China, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job, attend a better school. As a result you have lifted literally hundreds of millions of people from poverty Per capita income has more than doubled in the last decade. Most Chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined just 20 years ago.
贵国在社会和经济领域的变革更为显著，从一个封闭的指令性经济体制向一个日显生机、日趋注重市场性的经济转变，产生了连续20年史无前例的增长，赋予人民到国内外旅游、进行村委会选举、拥有住房、选择职业以及上更好学校的更大的自由。因此，贵国帮助成千上百万的人们摆脱了贫困。在过去的10年中人均收入翻了一番以上。大多数中国人民过上了20年前还难以想象的美好生活。
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