2010年，我們發起了“10萬人留學中國計劃”。正如庫爾特所說，這項計劃旨在在四年時間內將美國學生到中國留學的人數增加到10萬人。我們把重點放在學生交換上，因為我們相信，未來顯然掌握在我們兩國的年輕人手中。而我們越是能夠增進交流和理解以及相互信任，就越對不僅兩國關系、而且對我們兩國各自有益。我們必須大大超越與外交官、記者、領導人或企業家對話的范疇。對學生和其他年輕人而言，沒有什么比努力在我們之間建立一個交流結構來得更重要。

　　Now, we’ve made tremendous progress since 2010. We’ve already expanded study abroad programs. We’ve supported scholarship funds to help American students from underserved communities study in China. We’ve worked with Education USA to provide tools and resources for Chinese students seeking to study here. And the number of students coming between our two countries continues to grow. But we still have a lot of room for improvement.

　　自2010年以來，我們已經取得了巨大的進展。我們擴大了海外留學計劃。我們為獎學金提供了支持，幫助來自缺少機會的社區的美國學生到中國學習。我們與美國教育咨詢中心合作，為中國學生提供來這里學習的手段和資源。我們兩國間互往的學生人數持續增長。但是，我們仍然有很多改進的余地。

　　So I’m happy today that we’re launching a permanent, independent nonprofit organization focused not only on our goal of 100,000 American students in China by 2014, but on continuing to strengthen the student exchanges for years to come. And I’m so grateful to all of our State Department partners who are here today who have helped put the 100,000 Strong Foundation together.

　　因此，我今天很高興看到我們將成立一個永久性的、獨立的非營利性組織，不僅致力于到2014年使美國學生在中國留學人數達到10萬的目標，而且將不斷在未來歲月中增進學生交換。我在此衷心感謝今天在座的曾幫助共同創立“10萬人留學中國計劃基金會”的國務院的所有合作伙伴。

　　As I think back on the four years that I’ve been privileged to serve as Secretary of State, there are moments that just jump out of my memory bank. And one of them is when I finally got to our pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, which, as a number of you know, I am very proud to be called the mother of whenever I go to China because of the circumstances in which it was birthed. (Laughter.) But when I did get there for this magnificent expo that had been built up with pavilions from around the world and a magnificent Chinese pavilion, I was thrilled that the main attraction of our USA Pavilion were American students who had been studying Chinese, who were our designated hosts and greeters.

　　回顧過去四年我有幸擔任國務卿的歲月，有些時刻會立即顯現在眼前。其中之一是，在我抵達我們在上海世博會的展館——此事你們不少人都知道——每當我到訪中國——由于展館誕生的經歷——我都會被冠以媽媽的稱呼(笑聲)。但是當我確實到了那里，參觀那個建有世界各地展館和一座宏偉的中國館的世博會時，讓我感到極其興奮的是，我們美國館最吸引人的是那些一直在學漢語的美國學生，他們是我們指定的展館接待員和禮賓員。

　　And I had the best time watching long lines of Chinese citizens who were coming to see our pavilion like they had been coming to see all of the pavilions looking surprised when some little African American girl would come up and start talking to them in Chinese, or some big tall Hispanic youngster would give them directions about how to go through the pavilion, or some other child – child; I’m so old, they’re all children – (laughter) – but some other student would come up and say something similar. And it was wonderful to watch the interchange. And I talked to some of the students. “Where were you from?” “Oh, from LA.” “Where are you from?” “Oh, from New York City.” And so many of these young people were first-generation college students in America who had just become taken with China, and so they were studying Chinese and now they were there as official representatives of the United States Government.

　　觀看排長隊等候參觀我國展館的中國人是讓我非常開心的經歷，那些前來參觀所有展館的人在看到一位非洲裔美國小女孩走上前去開始用漢語同他們說話時一臉驚訝，或某個高大的西班牙裔小伙子為他們指路，告訴他們如何在展館里參觀，或其他哪個孩子——孩子，因為我這么大年紀，所以他們都是些孩子(笑聲)——某個學生會走上來，說些類似的事情。目睹這些交流真是好極了。我同其中的一些學生聊起來。“你從哪里來?”“哦，洛杉磯。”“你從哪里來?”“哦，紐約市。”這些年輕人中，有許多是剛剛被中國吸引的美國第一代大學生，他們正在學習漢語，而此刻他們成了美國政府在那里的正式代表。

　　I say that because that’s what we want to see more of. We want to see Chinese youngsters here, American youngsters in China, and we want to see them breaking down the barriers that exist between any peoples from different cultures and experiences and histories and backgrounds. And I think that will happen because in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago, young people in both China and the United States are global citizens. They are communicating with new tools of technology that were not even dreamt of a decade ago. And so they are already building cyber or Internet relationships, and we want to give them a chance to form the real deal – getting to know each other, getting to understand each other.

　　我說這些，是因為這就是我們希望能更多看到的情況。我們希望在這里看到中國的年輕人，而在中國能看到美國的年輕人，我們希望他們能夠打破任何存在于不同文化、經歷、歷史、背景的人之間的障礙。我認為這會實現，因為中美兩國的年輕人已經以僅在短短幾年前還不可想象的方式變成全球公民。他們在用十年前想都想不到的新技術工具進行交流。因此他們已經在建立網際或因特網關系了，而我們希望給他們一個機會去形成一種貨真價實的關系——相互認識，相互理解。

　　So I’m thrilled that we’re announcing this foundation. I thank everyone here at the State Department and all of our partners who are making this possible. And I’m also very excited because this is a perfect example of a public-private partnership, and nobody does it better than the United States. We really are good at this because we have a long tradition of understanding that we have to have both government action and government involvement, but where most of life takes place in our country is not there; it’s outside of government. It’s in these other institutions – colleges and universities, foundations and philanthropies, individual efforts of all kind. So we are deeply grateful that you have understood our vision for 100,000 Strong and are making it a reality.

　　所以我們宣布這個基金會的成立讓我特別高興。我感謝國務院在座各位以及所有促成此事的所有合作伙伴。另一個令我興奮的原因是，這是政府-民間伙伴關系的一個完美實例，沒有誰比美國做得更好。這一點的確是我們所擅長的，因為我們有著悠久的傳統，即理解我們必須既有政府行動也有政府參與，但我國的大部分生活并不在政府范疇內，而是在政府之外，是在其他機制中——高等院校、基金會和慈善機構，以及通過個人的種種努力。因此，我們對于你們理解我們的“10萬人留學中國計劃”愿景并正在使其成為現實深表感謝。

　　And with that, let me turn it back to Assistant Secretary Campbell. Thank you all. (Applause.)

　　就此，讓我把話筒還給助理國務卿坎貝爾。謝謝大家(掌聲)。