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口译笔记练习 Celebrating the Spring Festival Distinguished guests, On this most beautiful evening with numerous shining stars in the sky, on behalf of General Madam Ouyang and all my colleagues of the company, I wish to thank all the people here for taking the time off their busy schedule, at the busiest time of the year, to come to our Chinese New Year’s party. We really appreciate your presence here tonight with us. In particular, we are very fortunate tonight to have the attendance of our friends with the Benson’s Electronics Company, who came here all the way from Canada. I feel very proud and honored to have such a distinguished group of guests with us, in celebration of our Spring Festival. We have done and will continue to do our best to make this evening most relaxing, most enjoyable and most memorable for you. I hope you will have a good time enjoying the traditional Chinese cuisine and drinking the unique Chinese wine to your hearts content. So help yourself. In a moment, you will enjoy the authentic Chinese performance given by some talented young employees of our company. We will have a lot of fun tonight. While at work in the company, we, Chinese as well as our overseas staff of the company, hardly get to sit down and talk to each other. I hope this party will give us an excellent opportunity to get to know each other better in a more informal way and increase personal friendships. Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to thank you again for coming to the party. And I wish every one of you good health and the very best of luck in everything in the new year. An Opening Speech Ladies and gentlemen, May I hereby declare open “Tianjin Forum on Civil Society and Cultural Pluralism in the Asia-Pacific Region”. First of all, permit me, on behalf of the organizing committee of the forum, to extend our warm welcome to the leaders of the Tianjin Municipal Government, leaders of social organizations, representatives of the Community Social Workers’ Association and guests from various circles! Our warm welcome goes also to the friends from Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, as well as other countries and regions. I wish to express our sincere thanks to the Langara Community College of Vancouver, Canada, and Civil Society Research Institute of Latrobe University, Australia, whose generous help has made possible the successful commencement of this forum. Ladies and gentlemen, the ever-changing information technology has updated and revolutionized the structure and content of human knowledge. And globalization is increasingly affecting every facet of our life. Consequently, our traditional way of thinking, which used to be constrained within the mindset of ethnicity, region and state, has been drastically changed. Social development and advancement have been increasingly built into the life of every social individual and group. In this regard, the civil society is especially important for the promotion of social development and meanwhile, our culture is becoming more and more pluralistic, playing a pivotal role in pushing forward the advancement of our society. China enjoys a long tradition of brilliant civilization, and is currently dedicated to the historical, vigorous transformation that leads to a modern society. China as one of the most important countries in the Asia-Pacific region is advancing healthily and steadily towards social and cultural prosperity and development. The current “Tianjin Forum on Civil Society and Cultural Pluralism in the hope that the forum will intensify mutual understanding between different societies and cultures, facilitate academic exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region, and promote cultural and social changes and development in this region. Ladies and gentlemen, the establishment and development of China’s socialist market economy requires the reform and improvement in our social welfare and security system, which in turn places higher expectations on the work of community service. With the transformation of governmental functions, much of the work involving social services that was initially undertaken by the government will have to be transferred gradually to social groups and non-governmental organizations. On the one hand, the government will shoulder greater responsibilities in its macro-management; and on the other hand, social groups and non-governmental organizations will need to involve themselves more in community service. Consequently, there has emerged an issue which concerns the way of a close collaboration and the division of responsibilities between the government and social groups, in order to further the development of community service. Some developed countries and regions have accumulated much experience in this regard, which merits our reference and study. Ladies and gentlemen, we would also like to take this opportunity to outline the community service programs of Chinese urban areas and in particular, to present the reform that has taken place in the management mechanism of Tianjin’s social security and welfare programs, in the hope of sharing our views on this issue and learning from you your advanced international experience. It is my conviction that this forum will prove to be constructive and significant in promoting the prosperous development of China’s community service program as well as China’s economic development and social stability. I also believe that this forum will conclude with abundant accomplishments through your hard work. In conclusion, I wish “Tianjin Forum on Civil Society and Cultural Pluralism in the Asia-Pacific Region” a complete success. I wish our overseas experts and scholars, and Chinese friends from various parts of the country a pleasant stay in Tianjin. Thank you.