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杨澜

TED

演讲：重 塑中国的年轻一代（英文演讲稿）

Y

ang Lan: The generation that's remaking China

The night before I was heading for Scotland, I was invited to host the final of

show in Shanghai with the 80,000 live audience in the stadium. Guess who was the performing

guest?Susan Boyle. And I told her,

she even managed to say a few words in Chinese. [Chinese]So it's not like

that ordinary stuff. It means

from

our

Chinese

parallel

Susan

Boyle

--

a

50-some

year-old

woman,

a

vegetable

vendor

in

Shanghai, who loves singing Western opera, but she didn't understand any English or French or

Italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable names in Chinese. (Laughter) And the

last sentence of Nessun Dorma that she was singing in the stadium was

[as] Susan Boyle was saying that, 80,000 live audience sang together. That was hilarious.

So I guess both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherness. They

were the least expected to be successful in the business called entertainment, yet their courage and

talent

brought

them

through.

And

a

show

and

a

platform

gave

them

the

stage

to

realize

their

dreams. Well, being different is not that difficult. We are all different from different perspectives.

But I think being different is good, because you present a different point of view. Y

ou may have

the chance to make a difference.

My generation has been very fortunate to witness and participate in the historic transformation of

China

that

has

made so

many changes

in

the

past

20,

30

years.

I

remember

that

in

the

year

of

1990,when I was graduating from college, I was applying for a job in the sales department of the

first five-star hotel in Beijing, Great Wall Sheraton -- it's still there. So after being interrogated by

this

Japanese

manager

for

a

half

an

hour,

he

finally

said,

Miss

Y

ang,

do

you

have

any

questions to ask me?

es, but could you let me know,

what actually do you sell?

hotel. That was the first day I set my foot in a five-star hotel.

Around the same time, I was going through an audition

-- the first ever open audition by national

television in China -- with another thousand college girls. The producer told us they were looking

for some sweet, innocent and beautiful fresh face. So when it was my turn, I stood up and said,

you know, supportive? Why can't they have their own ideas and their own voice?

of

offended

them.

But

actually,

they

were

impressed

by

my words.

And so

I was

in

the

second

round of competition, and then the third and the fourth. After seven rounds of competition, I was

the last one to survive it. So I was on a national television prime-time show. And believe it or not,

that was the first show on Chinese television that allowed its hosts to speak out of their own minds

without reading an approved script. (Applause) And my weekly audience at that time was between

200 to 300 million people.

Well

after

a

few

years,

I

decided

to

go

to

the

U.S.

and

Columbia

University

to

pursue

my

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postgraduate studies, and then started my own media company

, which was unthought of during the

years

that

I started

my career.

So we

do

a

lot

of

things.

I've

interviewed

more than

a

thousand

people

in the past. And sometimes I have young people approaching me say,

my life,

of the whole country

. I was in Beijing's bidding for the Olympic

Games. I was representing the

Shanghai Expo. I saw China embracing the world and vice versa. But then sometimes I'm thinking,

what are today's young generation up to? How are they different, and what are the differences they

are going to make to shape the future of China, or at large, the world?

So today I want to talk about young people through the platform of social media. First of all, who

are they? [What] do they look like? Well this is a girl called Guo Meimei -- 20 years old, beautiful.

She

showed

off

her

expensive

bags,

clothes

and

car

on

her

microblog,

which

is

the

Chinese

version of Twitter. And she claimed to be the general manager of Red Cross at the Chamber of

Commerce.

She

didn't

realize

that

she

stepped

on

a

sensitive

nerve

and

aroused

national

questioning, almost a turmoil, against the credibility of Red Cross. The controversy was so heated

that the Red Cross had to open a press conference to clarify it, and the investigation is going on.

So far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that title -- probably because she feels proud

to

be

associated

with

charity.

All

those

expensive

items

were

given

to

her

as

gifts

by

her

boyfriend,who

used

to

be

a

board

member

in

a

subdivision

of

Red

Cross

at

Chamber

of

Commerce. It's very complicated to explain. But anyway, the public still doesn't buy it. It is still

boiling.

It shows

us

a

general

mistrust

of

government

or

government-backed

institutions, which

lacked transparency in the past. And also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as

microblog.

Microblog

boomed

in

the

year

of

2010,

with

visitors

doubled

and

time

spent

on

it

tripled.

, a major news portal, alone has more than 140 million microbloggers. On Tencent, 200

most

popular

blogger

--

it's

not

me

--

it's

a

movie

star,

and she

has

more

than

9.5

million followers, or fans. About 80 percent of those microbloggers are young people, under 30

years

old.

And

because,

as

you

know,

the

traditional

media

is

still

heavily

controlled

by

the

government,social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't

have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active

and even violent.

So through microblogging, we are able to understand Chinese youth even better. So how are they

different? First of all, most of them were bornin the 80s and 90s, under the one-child policy. And

because of selected abortion by families who favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with 30

million more young men than women. That could pose a potential danger to the society, but who

knows; we're in a globalized world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries. Most of

them have fairly good education. The illiteracy rate in China among this generation is under one

percent. In cities,

80

percent

of

kids

go

to

they

are

facing

an

aging

China

with

a

population above 65 years old coming up with seven-point-some percent this year, and about to be

15

percent

by

the

year

of

2030.

And

you

know we

have

the

tradition

that

younger

generations

support

the

elders

financially,

and

taking

care

of

them

when

they're

sick.

So

it

means

young

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