2015年CRI President Xi's Speech at UK-China Business Summit Receives Positive Feedback

 

Several topics have been covered in President Xi's speech such as trade opportunities provided by the "One Belt, One Road" initiative as well as the promotion¹ of tourism between the two countries.

Lord Mayor of the City of London Alderman Alan Yarrow spoke² highly of the speech.

"I mean it showed a real partnership³ in looking towards the future and the 'golden era'. It was fantastically cooperative; it was helpful; it was supportive of all our private businesses to make sure they collaborate⁴ more in the future, helping⁵ both the Chinese people and the British people."

Yarrow also praised the "One Belt,One Road" initiative as a way of rejoining the East with Europe, saying it's a wonderful illustration of how to get the cooperation and the infrastructure⁶ in place to make sure that global trade blossoms in the future.

For his part, acting⁷ director-general for UK Trade and Investment, Michael Charlton, said the initiative will bring many opportunities to the UK.

"There's a need to develop infrastructure along the 'Belt and Road' and the Chinese President Xi Jinping has clearly recognized that. And where we think exciting is that the UK can work with China in terms of third country investment. So we have many fantastic construction, engineering, project management firms that can help in that. And of course, we also have the financial companies to enable that to happen. One of the reasons, of course, that the UK was the first country to come forward and support the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank."

In his speech, President Xi said China will import more than 10 trillion U.S. dollars of goods over the next five years and that more than 500 million Chinese tourists will travel abroad during that time.

Discussing economic issues, Arnold Donald, president and CEO of Carnival⁸ Cruise Line, expressed his confidence in the Chinese economy and said he is eager to explore the Chinese market in the coming year.

"We expect China to be the largest cruise market in the world over time and we've seen tremendous growth. In fact, we are going to grow our capacity 58 percent next year in China and then we are bringing an additional two brands - our AIDA brand, our German brand, and our Carnival brand from the U.S. - in 2017."

For CRI, I'm Xie Cheng.

1 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

4 collaborate   

vi.协作，合作；协调

参考例句：

• The work gets done more quickly when we collaborate.我们一旦合作，工作做起来就更快了。
• I would ask you to collaborate with us in this work.我们愿意请你们在这项工作中和我们合作。

5 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

6 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

8 carnival   

n.嘉年华会，狂欢，狂欢节，巡回表演

参考例句：

• I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
• Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。