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As a result you have lifted literally hundreds of millions of people from poverty. Per capita income has more than doubled in the last decade. Most Chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined just 20 years ago.
因此，貴國幫助成千上百萬的人們擺脫了貧困。在過去的10年中人均收入翻了一番以上。大多數中國人民過上了20年前還難以想象的美好生活。
Of course, these changes have also brought disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous strains on your environment. Once every urban Chinese was guaranteed employment in a state enterprise. Now you must compete in a job market. Once a Chinese worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in Beijing. Now the global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of the world. For those who lack the right training and skills and support, this new world can be daunting.
當然，這些變化也打亂了固有的生活和工作格局，給貴國的環境造成了巨大壓力。以前，每個城市居民到國有企業就業都有保障?，F在，你們必須到就業市場上去競爭。以前，每個中國工人只要滿足北京中央計劃人員的要求，現在，全球性經濟一體化意味著必須跟上世界其他地區的質量和創造力。對于缺乏適當訓練、技能和支持的人們來說，這個新世界的確令人生畏。
In the short-term, good, hardworking people—some, at least will find themselves unemployed. And, as all of you can see, there have been enormous environmental and economic and health care costs to the development pattern and the energy use pattern of the last 20 years—from air pollution to deforestation to acid rain and water shortage.
在短期內，一些誠實勤快的人會失業。正如你們所見，過去20年的開發模式和能源使用模式，造成了空氣污染、濫伐森林、酸雨和缺水，使環境、經濟和醫療保健方面付出了巨大代價。
