6. Many leaders of government always go into raptures at the mere mention of artistic and cultural projects. They are forever talking about the nice parks, the smart sculptures in central city and the art galleries with various valuable rarities. Nothing, they maintain, is more essential than such projects in the economic growth.

只要一提起藝術和文化項目，一些政府領導就會興奮不已，他們滔滔不絕地說著美麗的公園，城市中心漂亮的雕塑，還有滿是稀世珍寶的藝術展覽館。他們認為在經濟發展中，沒有什么比這些藝術項目更重要了。

7. But is it really the case? The information I’ve collected over last few years leads me to believe that artistic and cultural projects may be less useful than many governments think. In fact, basic infrastructure projects are playing an extremely important role and should be given priority.

這是真的嗎？這些年我收集的信息讓我相信這些文化、藝術項目并沒有許多政府想象的那么重要。事實上，基礎設施建設非常重要，應該放在首位。

8. Those who are in favor of artistic and cultural projects advocate that cultural environment will attract more tourists, which will bring huge profits to local residents. Some people even equate building such projects with improving economic construction.

那些贊成建設文化藝術項目的人認為文化環境會吸引更多的游客，這將給當地居民帶來巨大的利益。一些人甚至把建設文化藝術項目與發展經濟建設等同起來。

9. Unfortunately, there is very few evidence that big companies are willing to invest a huge sums of money in a place without sufficient basic projects, such as supplies of electricity and water.

然而，很少有證據表明大公司愿意把巨額的資金投到一個連水電這些基礎設施都不完善的地方去。

10. From what has been discussed above, it would be reasonable to believe that basic projects play far more important role than artistic and cultural projects in people’s life and economic growth.

通過以上討論，我們有理由相信在人們的生活和經濟發展方面，基礎建設比藝術文化項目發揮更大的作用。