北京外国语大学高级翻译学院MIT入学考试视译试题notes.doc

北京外国语大学高级翻译学院MIT入学考试视译试题 Speech by Alessandra Tisot, Deputy Country Director, UNDP China, to the Third Global Corporate Social Responsibility Forum in Beijing Distinguished guests, It is a great privilege and pleasure to be here with you today, discussing an extremely interesting theme --- China’s Future – with so distinguished an audience. My professional life has been devoted to understanding and promoting the development of countries and peoples, and I have come to the conclusion that development is a multi-faceted and deep process of transformation. I am of the opinion that successful development transformation must come from within the country itself, which must have institutions and leadership to catalyze, absorb, and manage the process of change and the change to society. This is the perspective that I would like to apply today to an assessment of China’s experience of recent decades. Then, based on that analysis, I’d like to turn to a discussion of China’s future prospects. There are many what I’d call “China myths” that pop up regularly in the writings of foreign observers of the country. You will frequently find analysts saying that there is nothing very unusual about China’s growth record because it: a. Just reaped the quick gains from unleashing the entrepreneurial skills of China’s agricultural workers, b. simply followed the normal development model of shifting a large pool of cheap labor from the traditional sector to the modern to achieve greater productivity and growth, c. is just another example of an East Asian economy with massive inputs into production; high savings and investment rates leading to high growth, d. has been driven by massive flows of Foreign Direct Investment and a model of export-led growth that is no longer viable. All these myths are of the nature of “seeing trees but missing the forest”. Certainly each of these factors – agricultural productivity gains, structural transformation, high savings and investment rates, FDI