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Unit
6 Opening and closing ceremonies
Lesson
Three
Translation for the text
(All those on the rostrum and those
present took their seats.)
Good
afternoon, representatives, distinguished guests,
ladies and gentlemen!
The 1999 global
celebration ceremony of World Habitat Day formally
opens. Please rise for the
National
Anthem. Sit down, please.
Now , allow
me to introduce the distinguished leaders and
guests present on the rostrum: Acting
Executive
Director
of
UNCHS
（
United
Nations
Centre
for
Human
Settlement
）?
Mr.
xx;
Minister
of
China
Construction
Department,
Mr.
xx;
Mayor
of
Dalian,
Mr.
xx;
Chairman
of
England
Construction
and
Social
Housing
Fund
Committee,
Mr.
xx;
Coordinator
of
UNCHS,
Let
’
s welcome the
mayor of Dalian, Mr. xx to give the welcome
speech.
(The mayor gives the
welcome speech.)
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
The
UN
Secretary
General,
Mr.
Annan
has
sent
his
greeting
speech
to
the
Habitat
Day.
Please
project his speech.
(Secretary General Annan
’
s
speech is projected.)
Welcome
the
Minister
of
Construction
Department,
Mr.
xx
to
give
his
speech.
(The
minister
makes his speech.)
Welcome
the Acting Executive Director of UNCHS to give his
World Habitat Day address.( The
Director addresses.)
It is
time for the Award Ceremony of the 1999 UN Habitat
Prize which is set by UN as the highest
honor
prize
for
the
governments,
organizations,
individuals
all
over
the
world
that
have
made
remarkable
contributions in habitat field.
Let
’
s welcome the
coordinator of UNCHS to announce
and
introduce the list of prize winners. (The list is
announced.)
Let
’
s
invite the Acting Executive Director of UNCHS to
present the award.( Music is played.)
Welcome the Egyptian prize winners to
come to the rostrum to receive your prize;
Welcome Dalian
Mayor
?
to come to
the rostrum to receive your prize;
Welcome the Indian representative to
come to the rostrum to receive your prize;
Welcome Colombian representative to
come to the rostrum to receive your prize;
Welcome Slovakian
representative to come to the rostrum to receive
your prize;
Welcome American
representative to come to the rostrum to receive
your prize;
Welcome Ghanaian
representative to come to the rostrum to receive
your prize;
Welcome Kenyan
representative to come to the rostrum to receive
your prize (The music comes
and ends
Let
’
s welcome the
Chairman of England Construction and Social
Housing Fund Committee to
announce
and
introduce
the
1999
Habitat
Prizes
for
individuals.
(The
list
is
introduced
and
announced.)
Welcome Mr. xx
and Mr. xx from Britain to come to the rostrum to
receive your prizes. Let
’
s
invite the Minister of China
Construction Department to present the award.
(Music is played.)
Today, we observe
the grand global celebration ceremony of 1999
World Habitat Day in Dalian,
which has
achieved complete success under the instruction of
UNCHS and with the help
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of
friends
in
all
fields.
The
celebration,
with
Cities
for
All
as
its
theme,
has
great
historic
and
realistic
significance.
It
has
uplifted
the
activity
and
objective
of
World
Habitat
Day
to
a
new
height
and
has
greatly
promoted
the
urban
construction,
the
habitat
environment
and
housing
construction in China.
Now
it
is
my
pleasure
to
declare
the
1999
global
celebration
ceremony
of
World
Habitat
Day
closed.
Thank you!
Unit 6 Opening
and closing ceremonies
Lesson Four
Closing Speech of the
Manager of Dalian Port Bureau on the 9th Pan-
Pacific Ports Seminar
Distinguished
Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The 9th
Pan-Pacific Ports Seminar has completely
accomplished its goals as scheduled.
Today is
the closing day.
First, please allow me to express our
gratitude to every gentlemen addressed on
the
seminar
for
their
witty
remarks
and
brilliant
views
impressing
us
strongly.
We
also
feel
grateful to every
lady and gentleman who took advantage
of various forms
to communicate for
their special styles and ways to enrich
the content of the conference.
What
’
s more,
we
’
d like to
thank
Chinese
government
for
their
full
support
and
assistance
to
the
conference,
which
is
essential for the
conference
’
s success.
Of
course,
we
should
not
forget
our
friends
from
all
walks
of
life
who
served
the
conference.
Thanks to them , the seminar could
run smoothly
.
With the concerted efforts, we have
achieved the
desired result---
exchanging information and promoting
understanding, cooperation and friendship
between us.
In closing, we
are relieved to believe without doubt that the
conference will play an active role in
promoting
the
communication,
understanding
and
cooperation
between
the
ports
of
the
pacific
region, ports and shipping company,
ports and other fields.
Despite
getting
along
with
each
other
for
a
short
time,
the
conference
has
enhanced
our
understanding and friendship, leaving
us a golden memory.
Today, when we say
goodbye, I wish us blooming career and lasting
friendship.
We
’
re
eagerly
waiting to see each other in
Melbourne when the new millennium comes.
Now, I declare the closing of the 9th
Pan-Pacific Ports Seminar.
Unit 7
Welcome Speeches
Lesson Three
The
Vice-mayor of Dalian
’
s
Welcome Speech on the International Urban Water
Conservation Workshop
Delegates, ladies, gentlemen and
friends:
firstly, I will extend our
sincere congratulations on the opening of
International Urban
Water
Conservation
Workshop
on
behalf
of
the
government
and
the
people
of
Dalian.
Let
us
express our warmly
welcome to all the friends home and abroad to be
present at the meeting.
Dalian
is
one of
the
cities
with
a
severe
water
shortage
problem.
Since
1954, Dalian
has
made
great
contribution to the ensurance of the safe water
supply to the city. For twice Dalian has been
conferred honorable awards on modal
city of water conservation by the state.
But compared with
the
advanced cities home and abroad, we still have a
long way to go.
This workshop provides
us
with an excellent opportunity to
modestly learn their advanced experiences,
carefully compare and
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find our weak
points and thus promote our work. The
People
’
s Government of
Dalian has listed
the water problem as
one of the priorities Of urban development
outline/sketch and we have been
taking
effective measures to further improve the
city
’
s water conservation.
While building water
conservancy
projects, the city government proposed to stick to
the policy of
“
broaden
sources of
income and reduce
expenditure.
”
we
’
ll not in the
slightest degree, neglect the work of water
conservation in the mitigatory
situation of water supply for the city, and strive
for building Dalian
into a city of
water conservation.
This international
workshop has great significance to promote our
city
’
s water conservation
work.
I
hope
the
organizing
department
and
the
units
concerned
will
do
the
service
work
well
and
enthusiastically and the seminar will
attain the result as expected.
Finally,
I wish the International Urban Water Conservation
Workshop a complete success.
Lesson
Four
Welcome Speech of
the Vice-mayor
of Dalian
on the
Reception of the 9th
Pan-Pacific Ports Seminar
Distinguished guests, Ladies and
Gentlemen:
It
’
s my great
pleasure to have this opportunity to merrily
gather with all the friends from the
port-shipping
field
of
the Pacific
region.
All of
you
get
together
in
the beautiful
coastal
city
of
China--- Dalian from afar to attend the
9th Port Seminar of the Pacific region and explore
together
the
mutually
concerned
issues
of
the
port
field
of
the
Pacific
region.
This
is
really
the
grand
occasion of the field.
Please
allow
me,
on
behalf
of
the
People
’
s
Government
of
Dalian,
to
extend
our
warmest
welcome to all of the friends.
Ladies and gentlemen:
In the
vigorous economic region of China, Dalian plays an
important role. In 1997, the National
Gross
Products
of
Dalian
were
￥
82.9
billion,
the
general
import
and
export
values
of
the
self-managing
products
was
$$5.1
billion
and
the
actually
invested
foreign
capital
was
$$1.42
billion.
The
economy
of
Dalian
is
developed
economy
and
has
solid
foundation,
which
supplies
a
vigorous
support
to
the
port
’
s
development.
Now
Dalian
port
has
become
the
largest
comprehensive
commercial
seaport
,
the
largest
import
and
export
seaport
of
grain,
the
largest
transfer seaport of petroleum and fluid
chemical products and one of the most important
seaports
for foreign trade in the
northeast part of China.
Dalian
is
the
widest
open
city
in
the
north
of
China.
The
people
of
Dalian
are
reputed
for
hospitality.
Now spring is
changing into summer in Dalian, where spring is
very much in the air
and fresh flowers
are bright and beautiful. It is full of life,
vitality and hope.
I wish
wholeheartedly
a complete success to
the 9th Port Seminar of the Pacific Region! Wish
all of you a pleasant stay
in Dalian
and may you a pleasant impression on it!
Thank you!
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Unit Eight
Toast Speeches
Lesson Two
Liaoning Vice
Governor
’
s Toast
Speech at
the
“
Sino-US
Environmental
Protection
and
Economic
Development
Symposium
”
Distinguished Minister Counselor,
Mr.
?
Ladies,
gentlemen, friends and comrades:
The
“
Sino-
US
Environmental
Protection
and
Economic
Development
Symposium
”
is
held/convened
smoothly
today.
On
this
delightful
occasion,
Liaoning
Provincial
Government
holds
a
grand
welcome
banquet.
On
behalf
of
the
Government
and
the
people,
let
me
give
warmest
welcome
to
Mr.
Minister
Counselor
?
,
the
American
friends
coming
from
far,
all
the
ladies,
gentlemen,
friends
and
comrades
present
at
the
conference,
and
express
our
sincere
congratulations on
the successful opening of the symposium.
Liaoning province is the heavy
industrial base of our country, and also a major
province of energy.
Because of various
reasons, the pollution problem of Liaoning is very
serious. Therefore, it
’
s of
great significance to convene the
symposium in Liaoning. It helps Liaoning to keep
abreast of the
world,
and
also
helps
America
to
understand
Liaoning.
Liaoning
FAO
and
the
United
States
Consulate
General
in
Shenyang
have
done
a
lot
of
work
for
the
successful
opening
of
the
conference.
The America
Embassy in China and the administrative units
concerned in Liaoning province have
given their great support to this
symposium, on which we set a high value. For this
I
’
d like to
extend our sincere gratitude to them.
This symposium will last only two days.
It has a full and accurate content and a tight
schedule.
By
the
two
days
short
Conference
I
sincerely
hope
that
the
big
companies
and
representatives
of
America and China present here enhance
each other
’
s understanding
and build the bridge for long
cooperation in the future so as to make
greater contributions to harnessing environmental
pollution
of Liaoning, to
transforming the old industrial base in
Our province, to expanding the exchange
of
economy
and
trade
in
Liaoning
and
all
over
America,
to
promoting
the
growth
of
Sino-US
relationship and to beautifying the
only-one earth.
I sincerely wish this
conference will achieve complete success.
Thank you!
Unit Nine
Conference Statements
Lesson Two
The Dalian Statement
at the
“
Pan-
Pacific Ports Seminar
”
The
9th
Pan-
Pacific
Ports
Seminar
sponsored
by
Dalian
port
was
held
on
June
21-24,
1998
in
Fulihua
Hotel, Dalian. At
this
workshop,
about
200
representatives
from
the
major
ports
of
the
pan-
pacific
area,
shipping
companies,
freight
transport
agencies,
governments
and
academic
institutions
discussed
and
exchanged
extensively
around
the
theme
of
Regional
Economic
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Development
and Diversification in Port Operations. Thereby,
bilateral understanding and friendly
intercourse
were
promoted,
and
then
trade
increase
and
common
development
were
pushed
forward.
Since the first
workshop held 1982 in Auckland, US, the Pan-
Pacific Ports Seminar expanded its
own
scale
constantly
with
participation
and
support
of
the
initiating
ports
and
other
port
and
shipping
industry in the area. This workshop has already
become a well-known regional event of
the industry and has contributed a lot
to the promotion of friendly relationship, trade
intercourse
and flourish between the
pan-pacific personnel of the port and shipping
industry. The six initiating
ports
of
the
workshop
---Dalian,
Melbourne,
Auckland,
Shanghai,
Vancouver
and
Yokohama
expressed
their
heartfelt
gratitude
to
the
colleagues
of
the
industry
for
their
participation
and
support of the workshop.
As initiating ports, we solemnly promise that we
will perform our duties
and
fulfill
our
obligations
seriously
as
before.
We
will
assist
each
sponsor
in
organizing
and
propagating
with
all
our
strength,
ensure
the
success
of
each
workshop,
and
work
hard
for
achieving the
workshop
’
s set objective.
Meanwhile, the initiating ports are expecting
numerous
personnel
of
the
port
and
shipping
industry
continue
participating
And
supporting
Pan-Pacific
Ports
Seminar
and
sincerely
welcome
those
who
want
to
accede
becoming
a
member
of
the
initiating
ports.
By
mutual
consent of
the
representatives
of
initiating
ports,
the
10th Pan-Pacific Ports
Seminar
sponsored by
Melbourne port will be held in 2000 in Melbourne,
Australia. The exact date will be
decided by Melbourne port.
Unit Ten
Habitation and Environment
Lesson Two
Liaoning
Province
’
s Vice
Governor
’
s Speech at the
“
Sino-US
Environmental Protection
Symposium
”
Distinguished guests, ladies, gentlemen
and comrades:
Today,
it
’
s
my
great
pleasure
to
be
invited
to
attend
the
Seminar
of
Sino-
US
Environmental
Protection
and Economic Development and solicit the experts,
scholars, government officials and
entrepreneur
about
the
important
problem
of
the
world
’
s
environmental
protection
and
the
economy
development. Here please allow me on behalf of the
People
’
s Government of
Liaoning
Province to extend our warmest
welcome to the America friends from afar, all the
representatives,
friends and comrades.
At the same time, we extend our cordial greetings
to the smooth opening of
this seminar.
We are grateful to the great support and help of
the American Embassy in China, the
American General Consulate in
Shengyang.
The development of modern
civilization makes the earth on which the human
beings depend for
existence change a
lot. The fantastic advance of science and
technology and the great increase of
social
productive
forces
make
the
world
’
s
economic
scale
unprecedentedly
inflate.
The
rapid
growth
of population, the excessive exploiting and
consumption of natural resources, large amount
of discharge of the polluted material
result in the worldwide deficiency of resources,
pollution of
the environment and
ecological deterioration. Like all the nations in
the world, Liaoning is also
facing
severe challenges of the ecological deterioration:
the atmosphere pollution is higher than
the
required
standard;
the
crisis
of
water
resource
is
serious;regional
environment
is
worsened;
some
parts of the sea waters are heavily polluted.
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Liaoning Province is rich in natural
resources. It
’
s the heavy
industrial base of our country and
plays
an
important
role
in
the
development
of
the
national
economy
in
China.
In
geography,
Liaoning is a key link between the
Northeast Economic zone and the
Bohai Sea Rim Economic
Zone.
It faces Bohai sea, Huanghai sea, and links up
with Korea by Yalu River. To the southeast, it
faces Japan across the sea and borders
on the east, north and west with Jilin, Inner-
Mongolia and
Hebei
Province
and
is
close
to
Russia.
It
is
the
forefront
of
the
Eurasian
Rail
Bridge,
and
an
important passageway for
the foreign trade and international
communication in the northeast of
China. There is only one earth. Whether
Liaoning can control the pollution of the
environment or
not, not only concerns
the living conditions of the people of Liaoning,
but also has an important
influence on
the countries and districts around it.
According to the conditions of our
province, the People
’
s
Government of Liaoning chooses a road
of vitalizing the province by science
and technology and sustainable development on the
problem
of economic development and
environmental protection. Since the Third Session
of the Eleventh
Congress
of
the
Communist
Party
Central
Committee,
we
’
ve
handled
properly
the
relation
between economic development and the
environmental protection, population and the
resources.
We
’
ve
made notable success in working for the
coordinating development of economy and society.
We
’
ve
realized
in
Liaoning
province
self-supply
of
grains,
curbed
the
trend
of
steep
rise
of
population, established and improved
legislative and legal system, increased scientific
investment
on the environmental
Protection, strengthened the
public
’
s awareness of
environmental protection
and improved
the environment that we live on.
But we
should be acutely aware that in Liaoning, a lot of
new problems have arisen, and many
severe challenges must be faced while
remarkable successes have been made in the
environmental
protection. Because of
the long-term bounding of planning economy,
the big-and-medium-sized
state enterprises in our province are
slow in the transition of mechanism, the
industrial equipment
is backward, the
competitive awareness for market economy is weak,
economic benefit is lower,
the economic
development is not suited to the sustaining force
of the environmental resource. And
tackling
of
pollution
and
the
comprehensive
use
of
energy
and
resources
lag
behind.
All
this
requires
us
to
draw
lessons
from
the
past,
increase
the
investment,
make
more
effort
to
study
intensively,
make
research
and
try
our
best
to
solve
the
problems.
We
have
to
strengthen
the
exchange
and
cooperation
with
the
advanced
foreign
countries,
make
use
of
the
advanced
experience to do well in the
environmental protection by a variety of forms and
ways. Not long
ago,
at
the
Beijing
Sino-
US
Seminar
of
Environment
and
Development,
Premier
of
the
State
Council,
Li
Peng
raised
four
principles
to
strengthen
the
Sino-America
cooperation
in
the
environmental
protection.
They
are:
“
respect
each
other
and
seek
the
common
ground
while
putting
aside
difference;
enjoy
equality
and
mutual
benefits
and
complement
each
other
’
s
advantages; learn each
other
’
s experiences and
expand the cooperation; stand from the present
and
look
forward
to
the
future.
”
Accordingly,
we
’
ll
take
the
opportunity
of
this
seminar,
strengthen the exchange and cooperation
with America
in the environmental
development, keep
closer
contact with each other and solve every urgent
problem in this field.
Both
China
and
America
are
great
powers
of
environment
and
energy
resources;
and
have
responsibility
for
the
survival
and
development
of
human
beings.
So
strengthening
our
communication
and
cooperation
in
environmental
development
is
not
only
in
keeping
with
the
basic benefit of our two countries, but
also contributes to the sustainable development of
the world.
I
hope
wholeheartedly
every
representative,
every
guest
can
have
two
peoples,
promote
the
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communication with America, achieve the
desired aim of the seminar and achieve greater
success
in the cooperation of our
environmental development.
Lastly,
I
wish
complete
success
to
the
Seminar
of
the
Sino-US
Environmental
Protection
and
Economic Development in
1997.
Unit Eleven Habitation and
Sustainability
Lesson Two
A Speech by the
Executive
Mayor of the Dalian
Municipal
Government
at the
Celebration Ceremony of the UN
World
Habitat
Day
Honorable guests, Ladies
and gentlemen:
Today is the World
Habitat Day established by the United Nations. The
theme of this year
’
s World
Habitat
Day
is
“
Cities
for
All
”
.
We
are
very
happy
to
be
the
host
city
for
the
celebration
activities of
this year
’
s Habitat Day, and
we warmly welcome you here.
We noticed
that, within
less than four years since
the Istanbul Conference, the UNCHS has made
urbanization issues the
theme of World
Habitat Day three times. This is not only because
urbanization issues are affecting
and
obstructing the economic development of various
regions, but also because they are producing
common
problems
that
must
be
solved
in
order
to
achieve
the
sustainability
that
mankind
is
seeking for. After 2000, half of the
population is now living in cities, the other half
will also live
on cities.
Lots
of
problems
pertaining
to
the
sustainable
development
of
the
cities
will
be
increasingly
serious, such
as residence and employment, energy and
transportation, poverty and crime,
etc
?
At
this
time,
all
cities
in
the
world
are
studying
and
seeking
new approaches
to optimizing
the
environment.
At one hundred
years old, Dalian is a young city. In the early
1990
’
s, with the rapid
development
of the urban economy,
Dalian faced a series of problems that cities in
developing countries usually
encounter,
such
as
the
immense
pressure
of
the
growing
population,
many
in-debt
projects
for
basic facilities, acute
housing shortages, the low quality of the
environment and so on. In view of
the
above,
the
municipal
government,
after
studying
and
proving
in
many
ways,
worked
out
a
developmental plan that concurs with
the actual situation of Dalian. From 1993 to 1998,
a high
tide of urban construction
emerged in Dalian and the appearance of Dalian
changed. During these
six
years,
Dalian
was
conferred
the
titles
of
National
Sanitary
City,
one
of
the
Ten
Best
Cities
Comprehensively
Improving
the
Urban
Environment,
National
Outstanding
Tourist
City,
etc..
Frankly speaking,
these achievements are owed to the great
opportunities offered by the reform
and
open-door policy and the municipal
government
’
s urban
construction principles established
on
the basis of actual situations and their strategy
of sustainable development.
1. The
Elaboration of the design and planning, provided
scientific basis and blueprints for urban
construction.
Urban
planning
is
the
basis
and
key
for
urban
construction
and
development.
In
this
respect,
Dalian grasped the following five
points and therefore it achieved success.
(1) The formulation of the guiding
principle
“
seeking the best
instead of the largest
”
. At
the
beginning
of
1992,
looking
forward
to
the
future
development
of
Dalian,
the
municipal
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