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China DailyThe China Daily (Chinese: 中国日报; pinyin: ZhōngguóRìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China. The Communist Party of China-controlled state-run publication was established in 1981 and has the widest print circulation (200,000 per issue) of any English-language newspaper in the country. The editorial office is in the Chaoyang District of Beijing, and the newspaper has branch offices in most major cities of China as well as several foreign capitals.The Hong Kong Edition (Traditional Chinese: 中國日報香港版, Simplified Chinese: 《中国日报香港版》Pinyin: ZhōngguóRìbào Xi ānggǎng Bǎn ), has been published since October 6, 1997 and aims to report the policies and directions of the PRC government, politics, economy, and social and cultural issues of both mainland China and Hong Kong.As a newspaper group, the China Daily Group also publishes 21st Century, Beijing Weekend, China Business Weekly, the China Daily Hong Kong Edition and the Shanghai Star. The China Daily is a member of the Asia News Network.Foreign editors at the paper have been told that like most state-owned enterprises, the China Daily will no longer receive government subsidies and the newspaper's publication group is expected to show a profit. Tothis end, the paper has adopted a more commercial approach and its editorial content is being pitched increasingly towards a wider range of readers so as to attract more advertising revenue. The paper is still running at a loss in the increasingly competitive Chinese publication market.[。

⽆忧考英语资源频道为⼤家整理的china daily 双语新闻：⾦融危机导致亚健康，供⼤家阅读参考。

The ongoing recession in the West is affecting young people in terms of less jobs and shrinking benefits. But its effects don’t stop there ― surveys reveal that the economic crisis is also bad news for the health of young people. 西⽅经济持续低迷正在影响着那⾥的年轻⼈——失业率升⾼、福利缩⽔。

但其影响远不⽌于此——有关调查显⽰，⾦融危机也正在威胁着青少年的健康。

A 2012 poll by ICM Group, a research consultancy, revealed that 43 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds in the UK feel stressed by the economic downturn, more than among other age groups. 英国调查机构ICM于2012年进⾏的⼀项调查结果显⽰，在18到24岁之间的英国青少年⼈群中，有43%的⼈因经济低迷⽽倍感压⼒，这⼀数字要⾼于其他年龄段的调查结果。

This has resulted in 24 percent of under-25s drinking more heavily and 19 percent sleeping badly, according to the poll. 该项调查显⽰，巨⼤的压⼒致使25岁以下的青少年中，有24%的⼈酗酒，19%的⼈遭遇睡眠障碍。

“This group are the least likely to visit their GP (general practitioner) to discuss health concerns, yet are being badly hit by the economic downturn,” said Dr Sarah Jarvis, a UK-based GP, commenting on the poll’s findings. “Taking time out to address health worries is not a priority for young people.” “青少年极少会就健康问题去看全科医⽣，⽽他们恰恰正在受到经济低迷的重创”对于此次调查的结果，来⾃英国的全科医⽣萨拉•贾维斯表⽰：“花时间来关⼼⾃⼰的健康并不是年轻⼈⾸要考虑的问题”Besides their physical wellbeing, the mental health of young Westerners is also causing concern. 除了⾝体状况之外，西⽅年轻⼈的⼼理健康也引⼈担忧。

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Changing the face of modern fi nance C H I N A D A I L Y business life 17M O N D A Y, M A R C H 21, 2011CFOs want to broaden their remit to allow more fl exibilityBy KAREN YIPCHINA DAILYBEIJING — A chief fi nancial offi cer (CFO) at a multinational telecommunications group was directed to investigate how to optimize cash fl ow at customer contact centers, where clients also go to settle their bills. By looking deeply at the operations of the five sites, the finance chief con-cluded that the solution was to drive performance among the employees at the centers to create better effi ciency. Such is a typical scenario that many CFOs will recog-nize. Traditionally seen as the person who watches over the company’s cash, fi nance chiefs are seeing their job scopes expanding, with fi nance also now overseeing projects in other departments across the companies. More than ever, they are getting deeply involved inbusiness strategies fromissues such as where to investcapital to looking at company’s operations. They are also tak-ing on new responsibilities: managing information tech-nology projects, managing uncertainties, forecasting business trends and oversee-ing human resources. In addition to the expanded scope of responsibilities, 79 percent of the more than 1,000 senior finance execu-tives surveyed by consulting firm Accenture across Asia, Europe and the Americas, said they need more flex-ibility in their operations to more readily respond to ongoing market changes, and 59 percent of them said this increased flexibility will be needed across their opera-tions for the next six to 18 months. This change is now more evident in local Chinese com-panies, S tate-owned enter-prises and multinationals with subsidiaries in China, arising from a strong consciousness among Chinese fi nance chiefs that they are deeply connected to the global market, said Paul Boulanger, global managing director, finance and per-formance management, at Accenture. “Th ey are taking actions to build this capability to have better management of data and systems for forecasting and standardized processes. Th is will create the ability for them to manage costs and better manage uncertainties,” he said. “We see no lack of vision. Th ey know where they want to go by fi guring out how to go from local to global.” With the intensifying role, fi nance chiefs in China are now required to have a sharper focus on driving prof-itable growth through pricing, managing capital and manag-ing growth. A far cry from their previ-ous focus on finance, book-keeping, taxes and cash fl ow, “today, the finance chiefs in China have to look at global and local trends, environment and labor issues, and have an understanding of technical know-how”, said Catherine Lu, vice-president, Accenture Greater China. In the Accenture survey, more than three out of four respondents (78 percent) said flexibility is needed in their planning and forecasting, rather than the traditional annual process. More than half of them also said they needed greater fl exibility in their cost management, transaction processing, cash management, performance reporting, capital expenditure management and asset management. To enable greater market responsiveness, 84 percent of the executives said they need to update their processes, data or content (including analytics), IT systems and/or workforce centralization. Th e Accenture survey was conducted from October through November 2010 in eight countries — Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Spain, the UK and the US. Accenture surveyed 1,054 senior fi nance executives and nearly all report to the CEO, president or CFO of their company. The respondents worked in the banking, com-munications, pharmaceutical and media equipment, con-sumer goods and services, electronics and high tech, insurance, and retail sectors. Th e majority of the companies for which they work (82 per-cent of them) have revenues of $100 million or more. While finance chiefs have been groomed for bigger leadership roles by expand-ing their responsibilities, the recent trend is more about how to navigate through change and implementing the changes, said Alvin Wee, a Beijing-based fi nancial ser-vices consultant with recruit-ment firm Michael Page International. Following a recent assign-ment with an investment bank, his feeling is that the finance chief is part of a strategic team concerned with overseeing risk management — such as political risks, market risks and budgeting risks including opportunity costs and non-performing loans.The challenge for finance chiefs, according to Wee, is also implementing the changes on the ground. “It’s tough to balance the day to day accounting with a visionary role in the company — an equilibrium which it is increasingly critical for CFOs to maintain.” Typically, finance chiefs spent the bulk of their time on accounting, investor rela-tions, financial planning and analysis. Now a different skill set is in demand, said Samuel Lee-Bapty, manager of Michael Page International in Beijing. “Th ere’s a distinct need for stra-tegic CFOs, who speak Chinese and have a deep knowledge of Greater China coupled with solid international experience, said Lee-Bapty.“We talk about business partners, and today finance chiefs act like business part-ners for their companies. “Finance chiefs have gone from a stereotypical position to a more visible, influential role. This is a broad trend across companies and is ever more evident in joint ventures involving foreign partner-ships.” BOOK REVIEW | KATHY LIENREAD IT Book name: The Little Book of Currency Trading: How to Make Big Profi ts in the World of Forex Author: Kathy Lien ISBN: 978-0-470-77035-1Pages: 224Price: $19.95Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Making cashby dealing incurrency fl owCurrencies represent an increasingly popular way to capitalize on the up-and-down movements in the financial markets. Between 2004 and 2010, the daily turnover or volume in the forex market more than doubled from $1.9 trillion to $4 trillion. Previously limited to institutional investors, hedge funds, and other deep-pock-eted players, the onslaught of technology that moved foreign exchange platforms online has made the market available to individual traders. With the advent of cur-rency-based exchange-traded funds, currencies can now be traded like stocks and anyone can have access to trading 24-hours a day, using a large amount of leverage, with low transaction costs. In The Little Book of Cur-rency Trading, forex expert Kathy Lien describes the mul-titude of profit opportunities possible in the forex market, from short-term price swings to long-term trends.Lien skillfully explains the forces that drive currencies and provides strategies to profi t from them, reveals how to use various currencies to reduce risk, and to take advantage of global trends. Lien outlines the many different ways to trade currencies, starting with how to follow big stories and head-lines in the fi nancial markets that may aff ect currencies and skillful ways of turning these headlines into trading oppor-tunities. Th e book illustrates how to track trends and when to pick tops and bottoms using a trad-ing tool developed by Lien to determine whether a currency is in a trend or range.For active traders, curren-cies provide short-term price swings that hold the potential of making big profits every day and, for more strategic investors, they offer long, sustained price trends that generate money without the stress of monitoring the mar-ket every day. Th e Little Book of Currency Trading explains the forces that drive curren-cies and provides strategies to anyone interested in entering this dynamic arena.FO O D FO R T H O U G H TANDREW HARRER / BLOOMBERG Sheets of $100 bills. In addition to greater responsibilities, 79 percent of the more than 1,000 senior fi nance executives surveyed by Accenture across Asia, Europe and the Americas said they need more fl exibility in their operations to more readily respond to ongoing market changes. MANAGEMENT They are taking actions to build this capability to have better managementof data and systems for forecasting and standardized processes. This willcreate the ability for them to manage costs and better manage uncertainties.” PAUL BOULANGER GLOBAL MANAGING DIRECTOR, FINANCE AND PERFORMANCE MAN-AGEMENT, ACCENTURE ‘‘。

Study shows digestive bacteriapicky about what we consumeBy JULIE STEENHUYSENREUTERSCHICAGO — Gut bacteria— colonies of bacteria that livein the human digestive tract— appear to have fairly pickydining habits, with one typepreferring high-fat, fast-foodfare, and another preferring ahigh-fi ber feast, US research-ers said on Th ursday.Researchers are increas-ingly trying to understand theinterplay of bacteria and theirhuman hosts.“W e know our human bod-ies are colonized with tonsand tons of bacteria and otherorganisms. In your colon alone,you have more bacterial cellsthan you have human cellsin your whole body,” said DrJames Lewis, a researcher atthe University of Pennsylvania,who worked on the study pub-lished in the journal Science.L ast Apr i l, G er manresearchers reported that gutbacteria fall into three distincttypes. Lewis’ team wanted tosee how these diff erent typesof gut bacteria aff ect humanhealth.“The unique feature ofthe intestines is that they areconstantly bathed in what weeat. It seemed logical to usthat some of the differencesbetween one person’s gutbacteria and another couldbe related to what they eat,”Lewis said.To understand the differ-ences, the team had to sortthrough a lot of excrement.“We fondly refer to this asthe poop study,” Lewis said.For the fi rst part of the study,the team recruited 98 healthyvolunteers and collected stoolsamples from each. Th e volun-teers also fi lled out a detailedquestionnaire of their eatinghabits.Th en the researchers usedhigh-tech gene-sequencingmachines to determine thegenetic code of the bacterialiving in the volunteers’ colons.They found that the gutbacteria were largely from twodistinct groups, or enterotypes－ one called Bacteroides thatpreferred a typical Westerndiet rich in meat and fat, andanother called Prevotella thatpreferred a high-carbohydratediet.Next, the team wanted tosee if they could alter the gutbacteria by changing people’sdiets.They recruited 10 healthypeople, who checked into ahospital for a 10-day con-trolled-eating study. Half ofthe group ate a high-fat, low-fi ber diet, and the other ate alow-fat, high-fi ber diet.Within 24 hours, the teamsaw changes in the composi-tion of the gut bacteria but theoverall enterotype remainedthe same.Lewis said the fi ndings sug-gest bacteria that live in thegut are sensitive to short-termchanges in diet, but it may takea long-term dietary change tosignifi cantly alter the types ofbacteria that reside in the gut.Now, the researchers arelooking to see if these dif-ferences have an affect oninfl ammatory diseases of thegut, such as Crohn’s, whichaffects 1.5 million people inthe United States.“Crohn’s disease is causedin part by the way our bodyresponds to the microbes inour intestines,” Lewis said.He said children with thiscondition sometimes improvewith special diets, and theteam wants to see if these dietsalter the composition of gutbacteria.Ultimately, Lewis said itwill be important to fi nd outwhether the enterotype envi-ronment is associated withincreased risk for disease.Th at could lead to new typesof treatments for a host of dis-eases, such as diabetes or heartdisease.Madonnathanksexes forsupportVENICE, Italy — Popstar Madonna thanked herex-husbands for encourag-ing her to take up a careerin movies as she arrived inV enice on Th ursday for theworld premiere of her lavishroyal drama W.E.The 53-year-old celeb-rity has been married toUS actor and director SeanPenn and British fi lmmakerGuy Ritchie and has spentmuch of the last few yearsbehind the camera ratherthan on the stage.W.E., her second featurefi lm, appears at the Venicefi lm festival outside the maincompetition, but the pres-ence of one of the world’sbiggest celebrities inevitablydominated the attention ofthe world’s press.Th e fi lm re-tells the storyof American divorcee W al-lis Simpson, whose affairwith Britain’s King EdwardVIII led him to abdicate thethrone. It does so throughthe eyes of another US citi-zen W ally Winthrop, playedby Abbie Cornish, who livesin New Y ork in the 1990sand becomes obsessed withthe life of a woman withwhom she bears an uncannyresemblance.“I am and was attracted tovery creative people, whichis why I married Sean Pennand Guy Ritchie, two verytalented directors,” Madon-na told reporters aft er a pressscreening of W.E.“They both encouragedme as a director and as a cre-ative person to do what I did,and they were both very sup-portive,” added the singer,who wore a short-sleevedblack dress with white trim.She said that she hopedthe success of The King’sSpeech, set at the same timeand in a similar world toW.E., would help and notharm her project.“I was a little bit nervous,because I thought, ‘oh dear,if someone else is making amovie about the same time-frame, then who would beinterested in my movie?’“But then I saw the fi lmand I saw that it was froma completely diff erent pointof view, and I view the suc-cess of that fi lm as sort oflaying the groundwork formy movie.“So there is a little bit ofhistory and a little bit ofknowledge, and we are notstarting with a blank slate,”Madonna said.REUTERSFood revolution brings fl avor to MoscowBy OLGA NEDBAYEV AAGENCE FRANCE-PRESSEMOSCOW — Whetherit’s learning to make baconice cream, sampling lambfrom the Kalmyk steppes, orrustling up paella a la russe,Muscovites have embraced allthings food in a gastronomicrevolution.Hard to find just a fewyears ago, medium-pricedrestaurants that use locallysourced, seasonal ingredientshave now become the hot newtrend.Magazines aimed at theupwardly mobile publishcooking columns, and themiddle-classes are discov-ering the joys of the dinnerparty.Th e monthly Afi sha Foodmagazine has spearheadedthe trend, and last weekend itpacked crowds into a centralMoscow park for a food festi-val that was the fi rst of its kindin Russia.Around 10,000 peopleflocked to the historic riv-erside Gorky Park, not dis-suaded by a 600 rouble ($21)ticket price, as 40 restaurantspresented special menus,chefs held master-classes andfarmers sold home-grownproduce.Young couples with chil-dren in pushchairs and groupsof friends happily lined upfor two hours to buy pork,cooked sous-vide (sealedin a vacuum) and charcoal-smoked, or chicken ragoutwith cherries and coriander.“Th ere has been an evolu-tion in the way the middleclasses see food. After 70years in a gastronomic ghetto,we all tried out exotic dishes.And now we are looking for ahappy medium,” said AlexeiZimin, the editor of AfishaFood, a food columnist forKommersant daily and theco-owner of Ragout restau-rant.“Cooking has become a bigtopic in the media. A hugeamount of information hasappeared on the subject,” hesaid.On stage, in front of sev-eral hundred spectators, herevealed some tricks of thetrade. For example, prawnswith rosemary need to be sau-ted three times to ensure theyare cooked through and juicy.R agout chef Ilya Shalevdemonstrated how to makesome unusual desserts, turn-ing bacon into ice cream — asin the famed dish by Britishcelebrity molecular chef Hes-ton Blumenthal — and mak-ing salty caramel sauce as anaccompaniment.New Yorker Isaac Correacame to Moscow in 2003and now owns numerousrestaurants serving innova-tive American-style food. Heserves his ice cream in a cock-tail with Pepsi and mozzarellawith watermelon.“People have become moreknowledgeable. People read,people see, people travel,”Correa said.“Now they want to go tothe restaurant not just to geta meal. They want to sharediff erent experiences.”The chef of Delicatessenrestaurant, Ivan Shishkin,shows how to make a paella,Russian-style, with spelt — akind of ancient wheat increas-ingly back in vogue and onlygrown in a few R ussianregions — and wild chante-relle mushrooms.He says that he is on a mis-sion to create the savory fl a-vor of umami, the fi ft h basictaste identified by the Japa-nese, using local produce.“I am looking forward tothe time for pickling applesso I can use them to seasonfi sh instead of miso,” a highlysalty Japanese seasoning, hesays.While Shishkin says he triesto use locally grown produceas much as possible, suchas the spelt in the paella, heacknowledged that it wouldbe impossible to rely on thementirely.“That would make themenu too expensive, and Iwant to stay within reason-able limits so that ordinarypeople like us can come tomy restaurant.”The farmers’ market dis-plays lamb from the southernKalmykia region, yellow cher-ry jam from Dagestan in theCaucasus and natural yogurtfrom the Moscow region, athigh prices that puts off somevisitors.Yulia Fateyeva, a motherof three, stocks up on cheese,saying that she does not evenlook at the price and “adoresfarm produce”.But Marina Davydovacomplains that “everything isunaff ordable”.“I would be happy to buyfarm produce if it was at theprice you see at markets inParis or Nice,” she said.Th e founder of Lavkalavka,an Internet store that sellsfresh farm produce, BorisAkimov, argues that suchhigh prices are unavoidable.“I would also like this tocost less, but it’s not so simple.“In France, this culture hasbeen around for 500 years. Inour country, we only started20 years ago,” he said. Fears growfor Asia’sendangeredanteatersBy RACHEL O’BRIENAGENCE FRANCE-PRESSEBANGKOK — Tiger poach-ing gets the press but wildlifegroups in Asia are increas-ingly fearful for the future of asmaller, scalier and “less sexy”creature: the pangolin.The meat and supposedmedicinal properties of thisreclusive anteater are so prizedthat it is now thought to be themost heavily traffi cked mam-mal in the region, rapidly beingdriven toward extinction.“Th e volumes we are seeingin seizures are mind-boggling.No species can survive this lev-el of extraction for long,” saidKanitha Krishnasamy from thewildlife trade watchdog Traffi c.“Unfortunately, this scalyanimal does not invoke asmuch attention from the publicand, by extension, the authori-ties, as pangolins are consid-ered to be less sexy than theirlarger mammalian counter-parts,” she added.Tigers are also killed for theirbody parts, mostly for use intraditional Asian medicines,and major international cam-paigns have been launched tosave them from extinction.Trading in pangolins isbanned under internationallaw, yet Traffic’s Asian sur-veys show they are frequentlypoached from the wild, mainlyin Indonesia and Malaysia,exacerbating the threat fromrapid deforestation.Th ey are transported throughSoutheast Asia, mostly end-ing up in China and Vietnam,where pangolin fl esh is a deli-cacy and its scales — it is theonly mammal known to havethem — are ground into a pow-der for medicinal purposes.Historically, this ingredientwas used in Chinese medicineto try to cure a range of ills,from children’s hysterical cry-ing to eyelashes curling inwards,according to researcher and pan-golin expert Dan Challender.Today, reports suggest thescales are used in an attempt toreduce swellings, cure asthmaand, even in some cases, can-cer, but a lack of solid analysismeans “all uses seem unfound-ed to date”, he said.Challender, at Britain’s Uni-versity of Kent, added that thesupposed health benefits ofeating the meat include nour-ishing the kidneys.“Unless eff orts are taken toaddress both the demand for,and supply of pangolins, theywill go extinct in Asia in theshort-term future,” he said.Of four species found inAsia, two are “endangered” andtwo “near threatened”, accord-ing to the International Unionfor Conservation of Nature,which says it is unknown howmany of the secretive, noctur-nal animals are left.Two of four species foundin Africa are also “near threat-ened”, and all have decreasingpopulations, while Challendersaid seizures of scales boundfor Asia from Africa suggesteda developing trade.Likened in appearance to aglobe artichoke, the pangolincurls up into a ball when underthreat, making them easy forhumans to catch.Steve Galster, director of theanti-traffi cking Freeland foun-dation, said the shy creatureswere the “unknown problem”of Asia’s illegal wildlife trade,sometimes fetching more than$1,000 each on the black market.“The price of pangolins isjust going through the roof,”he said. “W e’re surprised thereare any left.”Already this year, seizureshave been reported along trad-ing routes in Th ailand, Cam-bodia, India, Malaysia, Nepal,Myanmar, Vietnam and Indo-nesia — but these are prob-ably just the tip of the iceberg,according to Traffi c.In one of the biggest hauls,the group said customs offi-cials at a Jakarta port found 7.5tons of pangolin meat in May,stashed in crates and coveredup with frozen fi sh, bound forVietnam.“Th e most outrageous thinghere is they even exterminatethe young pangolins, the onesthat when curled up are about20 centimeters long,” port cus-toms Chief Rahmat Subagio wasquoted as saying aft er the fi nd.Late last year, seized log-books showed one traffi ckinggang alone had killed and trad-ed 22,200 pangolins over 14months in the eastern Malay-sian state of Sabah on Borneo,Traffi c said.Often, however, pangolinsare transported alive to main-tain freshness and smugglersare known to inject them withwater to increase their weight— although many die along theway without food or drinkingwater, activists say.Bundled into tightly-boundsacks, the poor-sighted pan-golin fi nds its long sharp claws— normally used to dig at ant-hills — can become a danger:It is common for them to blindeach other as they try to escape.Experts warn their removalfrom the wild also threatensto destabilize the ecosystem oftropical forests, where the pan-golin’s diet of ants and termitesis a key form of pest control.Asian authorities are oftenunwilling to go aft er people ofinfl uence: “the big mafi as, thebig well-connected traffi ckers”,said Galster.He said laws against wildlifecrime are weakened by loop-holes and judges who don’ttake the issue seriously, despitethe perpetrators oft en makingmillions of dollars by exploit-ing endangered species.“We’ve seen too many traf-fi ckers get a slap on the wrist, ifanything,” he said.JIMIN LAI / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSEA Malayan pangolin is seen out of its cage after beingconfi scated by the Department of Wildlife and Natural Parks inKuala Lumpur.GOURDS FILL UP FARMPHOTO BY PATRICK PLEUL / AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSEAn octopus made out of pumpkins at the pumpkin exhibition of the asparagus and experi-ence farm Buschmann and Winkelmann in Klaistow near Beelitz, northeastern Germany,on W ednesday. Th e exhibition will use 100,000 pumpkins from 400 diff erent varieties.We know our humanbodies are colonizedwith tons and tonsof bacteria and otherorganisms. In yourcolon alone, you havemore bacterial cellsthan you have humancells in your wholebody.”DR JAMES LEWISRESEARCHER AT THE UNIVERSITYOF PENNSYLVANIA‘‘。

chinadaily中国日报选读词汇：1.extensive: adj 广大的；广阔的；广泛的；大量的①covering a large area; great in amountEg：The house has extensive grounds.The fire caused extensive damage.She suffered extensive injuries in the accident.Extensive repair work is being carried out.an extensive range of wines②including or dealing with a wide range of informationEg:Extensive research has been done into this disease.His knowledge of music is extensive.She has extensive experience in computers.③extensively：adverb a spice used extensively in Eastern cooking Eg:She has travelled extensively.2.vigorous:adj 有力的；用力的；精力充沛的①very active, determined or full of energyEg:a vigorous campaign against tax frauda vigorous opponent / supporter of the governmentTake vigorous exercise for several hours a week.②strong and healthy:Eg:a vigorous young manThis plant is a vigorous grower.③vigorously：adverbEg:She shook her head vigorously.The accusation was vigorously denied.3.repariate:v （自异国）遣返①：to send or bring sb back to their own countryEg:The refugees were forcibly repatriated.②：(business) to send money or profits back to your own countryEg:An agreement between the countries enables companies to repatriate their profits freely.③：repatriation：noun [U, C]: the repatriation of immigrants / profitsEg:a voluntary repatriation programme4.solemn:adj 严肃的；庄严的；隆重的①(of a person) not happy or smiling; looking very seriousEg:Her face grew solemn. ◆ a solemn expressio n②done, said, etc. in a very serious and sincere wayEg:a solemn and binding promise(of a religious ceremony or formal occasion) performed in a serious way: Eg:a solemn festival / ceremonysolemnly:adverbEg:She solemnly promised not to say a word to anyone about it.The choir walked solemnly past.5.safeguard:v 保护；维护n 预防措施；保证条款verb~ against sth (formal) to protect sth from loss, harm or damage; to keep sth safeEg: to safeguard sb's interests / rights / privacyto safeguard jobs / the environmentThe new card will safeguard the company against fraud.The leaflet explains how to safeguard against dangers in the home.noun~ (against sth) something that is designed to protect people from harm, risk or danger:Eg:Stronger legal safeguards are needed to protect the consumer.The measures have been introduced as a safeguard against fraud.6.implement: vt 使生效，履行，实施n 工(器，用)具verb①to make sth that has been officially decided start to happen or be used Synonym: CARRY OUTEg:to implement changes / decisions / policies / reformsA new work programme for young people will be implemented. implementation noun [U]: the implementation of the new systemnouna tool or an instrument, often one that is quite simple and that is used outdoorsEg:agricultural implements7.promulgate:v公布①[usually passive]to spread an idea, a belief etc. among many people②to announce a new law or system officially or publiclyEg:The new constitution was promulgated in 1990.③Promulgation: noun [U]8.periodical：n 期刊a magazine that is published every week, month, etc., especially one that is concerned with an academic subject9.digital:adj 数字的，数字显示的 n数字电视adjective①using a system of receiving and sending information as a series of the numbers one and zero, showing that an electronic signal is there or is not thereEg:a digital cameradigital terrestrial and digital satellite broadcasting②(of clocks, watches, etc.) showing information by using figures, rather than with HANDS that point to numbers Eg:a digital clock / watchnoun[U]digital televisionEg:How long have you had digital?With digital you can choose the camera angle you want.10.prosperity:n 兴旺，繁荣[U]the state of being successful, especially financiallySynonym: affluenceEg:Our future prosperity depends on economic growth.The country is enjoying a period of peace and prosperity.表达：1.Yet hardly anything abroad is being done to return them to China,the relic’s rightful home.至今几乎没有什么东西归还给这些遗产真正的故乡中国。

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中国日报常用词汇表（新增）·AA制Dutch treatment; go Dutch·A股市场A share market·爱尔兰共和军Irish Republic Army (IRA)·爱国民主人士patriotic democratic personages ·爱国统一战线patriotic united front·爱国卫生运动patriotic sanitation campaign ·“爱国者”导弹Patriot missile·爱丽舍宫Elysée Palace·爱鸟周Bird-Loving Week·爱屋及乌Love me, love my dog.·爱心工程Loving Care Project·艾滋病(获得性免疫缺陷综合征) AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)·矮子里拔将军choose a general from among the dwarfs--pick the best out of a mediocre bunch·安家费settling-in allowance·按键式电话push-botton phone; Touch-Tone; keyphone·安乐死euthanasia·安理会Security Council·安全岛safety strip·安全第一，预防为主Safety first, precaution crucial.·安全专项整治carry out more special programs to address safty problems·按时足额发放基本养老金pay the pensions of retirees on time and in full·安慰奖consolation prize·暗箱操作black case work·按资排辈to assign priority according to seniority·按成本要素计算的国民经济总值GNP at factor cost安第斯集团峰会（拉美国家）Andean Summit ·按揭贷款mortgage loan·按揭购房to buy a house on mortgage; to mortgage a house·有计划按比例发展planned, proportionate development; develop proportionately; develop in a planned, proportionate way·安居工程Comfortable Housing Project·按距离计费vary the charge according to how far away the destination is·按劳分配distribution according to one's performance·暗恋unrequited love; fall in love with someone secretly·奥林匹克精神the Olympic ideals; the Olympic spirit·澳门特别行政区the Macao Special Administrative Region·奥委会Olympic Committee·澳门大三巴牌坊Ruins of St. Paul·奥姆真理教Japanese Aum Doomsday Cult ·《阿Q正传》The True Story of Ah Q首字母是B 的词组共259 个·B超type-B ultrasonic·八宝饭eight-treasure rice pudding(steamed glutinous rice with bean paste, lotus seeds, preserved fruit, etc.)·把关guard a pass; check on; maintain a strict standard·拔尖人才tip-top (or top-notch) talent·巴解the Palestinian Liberation Organization(PLO)·《巴黎航空公约》(1919) The Paris Aviation Covenant·巴黎证券交易所Paris Bourse·八面玲珑be slick (in social intercourse); try to please everybody or offend nobody·霸权主义hegemonism·吧台bar counter·把握大局grasp the overall situation·八字没一撇Not even the first stroke of the character is in sight; Nothing tangible is yet in sight.·八卦Eight Diagrams; bagua·拔河(游戏) tug-of-war·摆花架子 a metaphor for presenting an attractive facade but in reality lacking substance,do for show·白金汉宫Buckingham Palace·拜金主义money worship·白领犯罪white-collar crime·白领工人white-collar worker·白领工人White collar (早在1928年，人们开始用white-collar来形容非体力劳动者，如老师、公务员等。

More than 50 farmers in South China's GUangxi ZhUang autOnomOUS regiOn Performed in a golden yellow rapeseed (油菜籽)flower field to mark 1 ______ 70th anniVerSary of the founding of People's RePUbIiC of China.Joined by visitors, the farmers, ranging in age from kids 2 ___ gra ndmothers, 3 _____ (WaVe) Chinese flags to the song, My MOtherIand and Me, One of the most Patriotic(爱国的)songs in China. The IyriCS of the Song 4 _____________ (believe) to be in SPired by the beautiful la ndscapes in the regi on. The PerfOrma nce en ded With farmers Iining UP and forming the nu mber "70 "in the field.Luo Shijie, the 5 _________ (orga ni Ze) of the PerfOrma nce, Said 6 _ life of local farmers is getting better, 7 _______ t hanks to the tourism PrOgram initiated(仓U始)by the government, he decided to en COUrage his folks 8 __________ (express) their gratitude With the PerfOrma nce.The village is now at 9 _______ Peak tourism SeaSOn With people from around the CoUntry10 _____ (ViSit) it to See the bloo ming rapeseed flowers.1. the to WaVed are believed orga ni Zer as mostly to express its ViSit ingLear ning Chin ese may be a hard journey for some, but people On social media have found a fun Way to make it easier - singing. The Un com mon Chin ese, a Song filled With rarely USed Chin ese words and idioms, Went viral among Chinese learners worldwide, helping people to remember infrequent words in an entertaining way. Internet USerS from around the globe have Shared VideOS of themselves Singing the Song On video apps SUCh as Tik Tok.US StUdent ChriStine Welch's Chinese Song A Million POSSibiIitieS WaS an inStant hit last year, With thousands USing her Song as a SoUndtrack to their video posts on Tik Tok. Welch has been Writing and Singing in Mandarin for years. "I just feel that Chinese is a Very POetiC Ianguage," She said.Her recent PerfOrma nce On ChinaCen tral TeIeViSi On SParked more buzz On Ii ne. The new song She composed WaS based On the an Cie nt Chin ese philosopher ChUa ng-tzu's poem EqUaIity of ThingS and OPin io ns and Ta ng Dyn asty (618-907) poet Li Bai's An Cie nt Style.WatCh the video to Iearn more about the IateSt trends regarding China.生僻字ThiS year Chinese People's Political ConSUItatiVe Conference, the top political advisory body, ope ns On MarCh 3, while the Nati Onal People's Con gress, the top legislature, ope ns two days later. China Daily reporters will bring these questiOnS asked by outlets from more than 20 CoUntries to lawmakers, political advisers and experts through the two-week event.TheSe questio ns will be an SWered in a SerieS of video in terviews, WhiCh will be available for VieW ing On the China Daily WebSite and app.Chin ese n etize ns have expressed frustrati On and eve n an ger after the Chin ese team Came SiXth at the Romanian MaSter of MathematiCS COmPetition, a field usually dominated by the CoUntry. All SiX Con testa nts from China failed to Win gold medal at the COmPetiti On and the One With best PerfOrma nce Came 15th.Chi na won the gold medal in 2009 and 2012 and Came in seco nd in 2010 and third in 2015 and 2017.The Roma nian MaSter of MathematiCS is One of the most challe nging intern ati Onal high school COmPetitions. A total of 24 teams from around the world COmPeted in the 11th Romanian MaSter ofMathematics. Contestants work through six problems over two days, and the team score is based on the combined highest three individual scores.China has always prided itself in the mathematics abilities and netizens started to criticize the Ministry of Education's decision to ban schools from using the results of Mathematical Olympiad as enrollment criteria in 2001 to alleviate students' academic burden.Qu Zhenhua, the leader of the Chinese team and associated professor in the mathematics department at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, told Pear Video that the country has not sent its best students to the competition, and the students participating in the RMM this year was only a regional team from Shanghai.They did not come to Romania to win gold medal, the competition is only for training, he said, adding that "they has done well and performed to their level."Learning Mathematical Olympiad is not for everyone and only students with special talent should get trained in the sector, he added.Chu Zhaohui, a senior researcher at the National Institute of Education Sciences, said it used to be very popular for parents to send their children to tutoring classes to prepare them for math competitions, which allowed their children to win places in better schools.However, education authorities have been taking aim at the classes amid fears of adding too much pressure on students, and most children who took the classes had little interest in math competitions, he said."Students' development should be natural and parents should not force them to learn something they do not like and they do not need to be the first in everything."BEIJING -- China's Ministry of Science and Technology Wednesday selected the country's top 10 scientific discoveries of last year, including macaque monkey cloning, a DNA nanorobot and the precise measurements of the gravitational constant. The following are highlights of the major discoveries:1.MACAQUE MONKEY CLONINGChinese researchers cloned the world's first macaques from somatic cells by the same method that made Dolly the sheep. It made research with customizable populations of genetically uniform monkeys a possibility, with the potential of furthering human disease research.2. CREATION OF FIRST SINGLE-CHROMOSOME YEASTChinese scientists have created a single-chromosome yeast, and its life functions show no difference from its wild counterparts, making it the first time in the world that organisms with multiple chromosomes were artificially transformed into single-chromosome forms. The research shows that a complex genome system can be simplified through manual intervention. This study may also pave theway for new man-made species in the future.3. KETAMINE FOR ANTIDEPRESSIONChinese researchers reported in the journal Nature how the anesthetic painkiller ketamine blocks the neuronal activity that drives depression-like behavior. The finding may provide new perspectives on the treatment of depression and anxiety, which currently affects some 300 million people worldwide.4. DNA NANOROBOT FOR CANCER THERAPYChinese scientists have constructed an autonomous DNA robot programmed to transport payloads and present them specifically in tumors. The nanorobot proved safe and effective for mice and pigs. It represents a promising strategy for precise drug delivery in cancer therapy.5. PRECISE MEASUREMENTS OF THE GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANTChinese scientists have calculated the most precise value of the gravitational constant, one of the most fundamental constants of nature. To achieve their results, the team used both the angular-acceleration-feedback method and time-of-swing method to come close to producing an accurate value.6. MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS IN SEARCH FOR DARK MATTERIn late 2017, China's Dark Matter Particle Explorer detected unexpected and mysterious signals in its measurement of high-energy cosmic rays, which might bring scientists a step closer to shedding light on invisible dark matter. It is the first time a space experiment has reported a detailed and precise electron and positron spectrum up to about 5 tera-electron-volts (TeV, corresponding to 1 trillion times the energy of visible light). In this energy range, the Chinese researchers detected a spectral break at 0.9 TeV and a possible spike at 1.4 TeV.7. BREAKTHROUGH IN STUDYING WATER STRUCTUREUsing China-developed new atomic force microscopy, scientists have observed the atomic structure of the hydrated ions in their natural environment. It is the first time visualizing the atomic structure of hydrated ions since the notion was proposed more than 100 years ago. Scientists also discovered that exactly three water molecules are needed to allow a single sodium ion to travel 10 to 100 times faster than other ion hydrates - a process that could lead to more efficient ion batteries, anti-corrosion coatings and seawater desalination plants.8.SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING TECHNIQUEA team of Chinese and U.S. scientists developed a new imaging technology that can perform high-speed, Iong-term and SUPer-resolutiOn imaging Of intracellular physiological processes. USing this tech niq ue, a Variety of new in teract ions betwee n Orga nelles Were discovered.9. BALANCED PLANT GRoWTHCrops Can be bred With high yields and less fertilizer, as Chinese researchers found a growth-regulat ing tran SCriPti On factor GRF4 that had the opposite effect of a growth-i nhibit ing PrOtein called DELLA in crops. GRF4 and DELLA existed in a balance that regulated plant growth and n itroge n metabolism. The finding could aid efforts toward reach ing SUSta in able global food safety.10. EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF HUMANITYArCheOlogists found a SerieS of Stone tools from the Early PIeiStOCene at Shangchen in the Chin ese Loess Plateau. The oldest OneS date back to 2.12 milli On years ago, 270,000 years older than the 1.85-milliOn-year-old SkeIetaI remains and stone tools from Dmanisi, GeOrgia. The new discoveries SUggeSt that there may have been a human PreSence OUtSide AfriCa earlier than previously thought. The results Were SeIeCted from 353 SetS of research Carried out from DeCember 2017 to NOVember 2018. About 2,600 Ieadi ng SCie ntists from the Chi nese ACademy of SCien ces, the Chin ese ACademy of Engin eeri ng and other academic departme nts voted On Ii ne for the 30 Can didates.High rise reside ntial flats are ______ C on StrUCt ion in Ton gzhou district, Beiji ng, Feb 20, 2018.Beijing MUnicipal COmmiSSiOn Of Development and RefOrm Said that 300 PrOjeCtS (inCIUde) 100 infrastructure projects, 100 PrOjeCtS focusing On the improvement of people's livelihoods, and 100 PrOjeCtS for high-end( 高端的) _____________________________ (technology)industries.The __________ (inVeSt) of the PrOjeCtS is expected _________ (reach) 235 billiOn yuan ($35 billio n).The COmmiSSion(委员会)said the PrOjeCtS would focus On the improvement of the functions of_______ (Center) downtown areas, the high-quality development of Beijing's SUbCenter in Ton gzhou district. JoUrn alists from home and abroad _________ (COVer) the upco ming annual two SeSSiOnS of China's top legislative 中国最高立法机构and political advisory bodies 政治协商会议will have better n etwork and tech no IogiCal SerViCeS available, in clud ing a 5G n etwork at media Cen ter _ ope ned On Wedn esday.Un der in CIUded t ech no IogiCal in VeStme nt to reach COVeri ng a thatThe two SeSSi OnS - One of the biggest political events of the year in the CoUntry - usually attract thousa nds of reporters from domestic and OVerSeaS media as they offer a good Cha nce for media to get a glimpse into China's overall development.The SeCond SeSSion of the 13th NatiOnal COmmittee of the Chinese People's Political ConSUItatiVe ConferenCe will open OnSUnday in Beijing, and the SeCond SeSSion of the 13th NatiOnal People'sCongress will kick off on Tuesday. National lawmakers and political advisers, about 5,000 in total, will review the annual work reports of the central government, the top court and top procuratorate, the country's social and economic development plan and the budget. This year, the NPC will also review a draft foreign investment law.During the sessions, the media center - located at Beijing's Media Center Hotel in Haidian district - will hold a series of news conferences on topics of major public concern. Senior officials in charge of different sectors will come to meet the media.On Wednesday afternoon, more than 20 free public computers were available for use on the first floor of the media center, and free Wi-Fi was also provided."A 5G network will be provided for journalists for the first time during the sessions," said a China Unicom technician responsible for the network service at the center."We hope a faster and safer online environment will better help journalists," he added.Also on Wednesday, the 5G signal started to cover Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing. China Unicom took the lead in realizing full coverage of the square's 5G signal, and the 5G stations can provide high-definition news coverage of the two sessions, according to Beijing Youth Daily.Besides the network services, journalists can also enjoy tea break services and conduct interviews in the media center's lobby on the first floor.(一) More tha n 50 farmers in South Chin a's GUan gxi ZhUa ng aut Onom OUS regi On Performed in a golden yellow rapeseed (油菜籽)flower field to mark 1 ____________ 70th anniVerSary of the founding of People's RePUbIiC of China.Joined by visitors, the farmers, ranging in age from kids 2 ___ g ra ndmothers, 3 _____ (WaVe) Chinese flags to the song, My MOtherIand and Me, One of the most Patriotic(爱国的)songs in China. The IyriCS of the Song 4 _____________ (believe) to be in SPired by the beautiful la ndscapes in the regi on. The PerfOrma nce en ded With farmers Iining UP and forming the nu mber "70 "in the field.Luo Shijie, the 5 _________ (orga ni Ze) of the PerfOrma nce, Said 6 _ life of local farmers is getting better, 7 _______ thanks to the tourism PrOgram initiated(仓U始)by the government, he decided to en COUrage his folks 8 _________ (express) their gratitude With the PerfOrma nce.The village is now at 9 ________ Peak tourism SeaSOn With people from around the CoUntry10 _____ (ViSit) it to See the bloo ming rapeseed flowers.(二) High rise residential flats are _____ ConStrUCtiOn in Tongzhou district, Beijing, Feb 20, 2018.Beijing MUnicipal COmmiSSiOn Of Development and RefOrm Said that 300 PrOjeCtS_______ (inCIUde) 100 infrastructure projects, 100 PrOjeCtS focusing On the improvement of people's livelihoods, and 100 PrOjeCtS for high-end( 高端的) _________ (technology)industries.The __________ (inVeSt) of the PrOjeCtS is expected ________ (reach) 235 billiOn yuan ($35 billio n).The COmmiSSion(委员会)said the PrOjeCtS would focus On the improvement of the functions of _______ (Center) downtown areas, the high-quality development of Beijing's SUbCenter in Ton gzhou district. JoUrn alists from home and abroad _________ (COVer) the upco ming annual two SeSSiOnS of China's top legislative 中国最高立法机构and political advisory bodies 政治协商会议will have better n etwork and tech no IogiCal SerViCeS available, in clud ing a 5G n etwork at media Cen ter _ ope ned On Wed nesday.Un der in CIUded tech no IogiCal in VeStme nt to reach COVeri ng a that。

有特色、高水平的奥运会unique, well-run Olympic Games加强国际合作，创造良好环境to strengthen cooperation with the international community and create an excellent environment促进中国经济社会发展to promote China's economic and social development增进中国人民同世界各国人民的友谊与合作to increase friendship and cooperation between Chinese and the peoples of other countries粮食总产量grain output第三大贸易国the third largest trading nation世界第四大经济体world's fourth largest economy国家税收government revenue外汇储备foreign exchange reserves更加开放的经济体more open economy加快发展债券市场to accelerate development of the bond market稳步发展期货市场to steadily develop the futures market创业板市场growth enterprise market中小企业板small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) board市值market capitalization（指已发行股票的总值）印花税stamp tax国家开发银行China Development Bank创业板块市场market for growth enterprises债券市场bond market期货市场futures market提高上市公司质量improve the performance of listed companies维护公开公平公正的市场秩序to maintain an open, fair and equitable market environment医疗保障medical insurance公共卫生服务health care医疗改革healthcare reform社会保障体系social security system医疗改革初步方案preliminary plan on the health care reform公开征求意见to solicit opinions from the general public基本医疗保险basic medical insurance安全、有效、方便、价廉的基本医疗卫生服务safe, effective, convenient and affordable basic medical and health service人人享有基本医疗卫生服务to provide everyone with access to basic medical and health services扩大城镇居民基本医疗保险试点to extend the trial of basic medical insurance for urban residents新型农村合作医疗制度new type of rural cooperative medical care system药品价格上涨surging drug prices免费的九年义务教育free, nine-year compulsory education免费义务教育free compulsory education学杂费miscellaneous fees“米袋子”工程"rice bag" (grain supply) program“菜篮子”工程"vegetable basket" (non-staple food supply) program物价上涨price hike价格过度上涨excessive price hikes消费者价格指数Consumer Price Index (CPI)生产者价格指数Producer Price Index稳健的财政政策prudent fiscal policy从紧的货币政策tight monetary policy固定资产投资fixed asset investment资源产品价格改革price revisions of resource products推动价格上涨的压力upward pressure on prices增加有效供给to increase effective supply抑制过度需求to curb excessive demand最受关注话题topics of most concern社会保障social security低收入人群low-income population进一步扩大内需和消费to further expand domestic demand and consumption稳定价格防止经济过热to stabilize prices and prevent the economy from overheating旧式的、依靠投资和出口拉动经济增长的模式old practice of relying on investment and exports for economic growth正确把握宏观调控的节奏、重点和力度to maintain an appropriate pace, focus and intensity in macroeconomic controls加强粮食、食用植物油、肉类等基本生活必需品生产to boost the production of daily necessities such as grain, vegetable oil and meat提高涉及人身健康和安全产品的生产许可条件和市场准入门槛to raise the requirements for production permits and tighten market access for products related to people's health and safety政府工作报告热词——住房篇[ 2008-03-07 14:58 ]以人为本的社会people-first society廉租房low-rent house廉租房项目low-rent housing program经济适用房economically affordable house二手房resold apartment小型和中型不动产small and medium-sized condominiums中低收入家庭low- and middle-income families高收入家庭high-income families中等收入阶层middle-income bracket房地产real estate多渠道解决住房问题an integrated effort to solve housing problems保持社会稳定to maintain social stability城市贫困人口urban poor低收入城市居民的住房困难housing difficulties of low-income urban residents增加“两限房”供给to increase supply of reasonably priced housing抑制高端房产需求to curb demand for high-end housing防止房价过热to prevent overheating in housing prices囤积和投机土地和房地产to hoard and speculate land and houses次贷危机subprime crisis3月6日，中国人民银行行长周小川在接受媒体采访时表示，从去年夏天开始的次贷危机，到目前为止还没有真正见底，所以不可小视。

Big steps must follow small advances大的步骤必须遵循小的进步The BOC Cross-Border RMB Index launched by the Bank of China in Singapore last month is a big step in China's efforts to internationalize the yuan, as it is the first index on the currency's internationalization compiled and maintained by a Chinese financial institution.中国银行上个月在新加坡推出中银人民币跨境指数，是中国人民币国际化的努力迈出了一大步，因为它是第一个由中国金融机构货币的国际指数编制和维护的。

According to officials, the index will help track cross-border yuan flows and transactions over time and across different regions. In particular, the gauge will follow the fluctuations in the amount of cross-border yuan flows, including yuan flow into and out of China, and cross-border transactions outside China.据官员介绍，指数将随着时间的推移，在不同的地区，帮助跟踪人民币跨境流动和交易。

尤其是，计将在跨境人民币流动量方面跟随波动，包括人民币流入和流出中国，和中国以外地区的跨境交易。

The Bank of China says the index climbed to 186 in the second quarter of this year, registering an increase of 41 percent from the second quarter of last year, and an 86 percent increase over thefourth quarter of 2011, when the index started. Despite the index's rapid growth in the past couple of years, such a trend has come to a halt this year. As a matter of fact, the index has dropped slightly from the first quarter of this year, which is partly reflected in the capital outflows in response to the tapering off of the US Federal Reserve's asset purchase (quantitative easing) programs.中国银行表示，2011年，当指数开始注册后，今年第二季度，该指数攀升至186，同比增长41％，从去年第二季度，在第四季度增加86％。

中国的发展正在成为世界经济发展新的推动力量在经济全球化趋势深入发展的条件下，中国及亚洲的发展正在成为世界经济发展新的推动力量，世界经济发展也将给中国及亚洲发展带来新的重要机遇。

世界各国经济互利合作、相互依存的加深，必将给全球经济增长创造更加美好的前景。

1978年实行邓小平先生倡导的改革开放政策以来，中国发生了前所未有的深刻变革。

中国的综合国力显著增强，人民生活不断改善。

中国人民在继承和发扬古老文明的基础上创造了新的历史。

现在，13亿中国人民正万众一心地在中国特色社会主义道路上开拓前进。

中国已经明确了本世纪头20年的奋斗目标，这就是紧紧抓住重要战略机遇期，全面建设惠及十几亿人口的更高水平的小康社会。

到2020年实现国内生产总值比2000年翻两番，达到40000亿美元左右，人均国内生产总值达到3000美元左右，使经济更加发展、民主更加健全、科教更加进步、文化更加繁荣、社会更加和谐、人民生活更加殷实。

为了实现这个目标，我们将坚持以科学发展观统领经济社会发展全局。

我们将坚持以人为本，从最广大人民的根本利益出发，不断满足人民群众日益增长的物质文化需求，努力促进人的全面发展。

我们将坚持以经济建设为中心，把发展作为第一要务，推动经济建设、政治建设、文化建设与和谐社会建设全面发展。

我们将坚持社会主义市场经济的改革方向，进一步推动制度创新，不断深化改革，激发全社会的创造活力，增强经济社会发展的内在动力。

我们将坚持对外开放的基本国策，建立更加开放的市场体系，在更大范围、更广领域、更高层次上参与国际经济技术合作和竞争。

我们将坚持走新型工业化道路，着力调整经济结构和加快转变经济增长方式，提高经济增长的质量和效益，大力发展循环经济，建设资源节约型、环境友好型社会，走生产发展、生活富裕、生态良好的文明发展道路。

中国的发展同亚洲及世界的发展紧密相关。

中国的发展已经并将继续为亚洲及世界各国带来合作共赢的机遇。

中国将继续稳步开放市场，创新引进外资的形式，完善有关鼓励和保护外商投资的法律法规，改革涉外经济管理体制，加强知识产权保护，努力为中国的对外经贸合作和外国来华投资提供一切便利，创造更好的环境。