各位校长、企业家，女士们、先生们、朋友们：

Dear Presidents and Entrepreneurs,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Friends,
Distinguished Guests,

在生机勃勃、春花烂漫的美好时节，我们在六朝古都南京欢聚。前晚，上海世博会隆重开幕。今天，南京又迎来了第四届中外大学校长论坛。这次论坛不仅有全球知名大学校长，还首次邀请了企业界和驻华使馆的朋友们，可以说群贤毕至，蓬荜生辉。在此，我谨代表中国政府，对论坛的召开表示热烈的祝贺！向远道而来的各位嘉宾表示诚挚欢迎和良好祝愿！

In this beautiful season, with trees coming back to life and spring flowers blossoming, we are delighted to gather in Nanjing, the capital of six dynasties in my nation’s imperial past. The night before last, Expo 2010 was unveiled in pomp and pageantry in Shanghai. Today, the Fourth Chinese-Foreign University Presidents Forum opens in Nanjing, where presidents of world-renowned universities are joined by entrepreneurs and diplomats from across the world. Your precious presence, indeed, makes this assembly hall shine in splendor! Please allow me, on behalf of the Chinese government, extend our warm congratulations on the convocation of this forum, and convey our warmest welcome and sincerest wishes to all of you, our distinguished guests from afar.

中外大学校长论坛是大学精神和创新思想的高层对话，是分享智慧、凝聚共识的互动平台。自2002年以来，论坛已成功举办了三届。这既为中国学习借鉴世界高等教育先进经验提供了一个契机，也为国际高等教育界的朋友们近距离观察、认识中国和中国高等教育，打开了一扇窗户。

The Chinese-Foreign University Presidents Forum is a venue for high-echelon dialogues on university spirit and innovative ideas; it is also an interactive platform where wisdom is shared and consensuses earnestly sought. This forum, having taken place previously on three occasions since 2002, provides a good opportunity for China to draw on the world’s advanced experience in higher education, and opens a window through which our fellow international educators can observe and understand China and its higher education at close quarters.

本次论坛立足后国际金融危机时代的繁荣发展，以“提高大学人才培养质量”为主题，就创新型人才培养、绿色大学建设、大学与企业合作等议题进行交流，探讨当代高等教育改革发展的重大课题，对于大学和企业应对共同挑战，增进民众福祉，开创美好未来，更好地肩负起促进人类进步的历史使命和社会责任，具有重要而深远的意义。

The theme of the currant forum, “Enhancing quality of university education”, is meant to promote global prosperity and development in the aftermath of the recent international monetary crisis. In the next few days, we shall put our heads together for a dialogue on the cultivation of innovative talents, on the building of eco-friendly university campuses, on cooperation between universities and businesses, and on other major topics concerning the reform and development of higher education in the contemporary world. Such a dialogue will mean a great deal for rallying universities and businesses in coping with challenges, improving people’s wellbeing, ushering in a promising future, and better fulfilling our historical mission and honoring our social obligations to human progress.

女士们，先生们：

Ladies and Gentlemen!

当今世界正处于大发展大变革大调整时期。经济全球化的深入发展，已使各国人民的前途命运紧密相连、息息相关。人类创造了空前的繁荣与文明，但是气候变化、环境保护、粮食安全、疾病防治、贫富差距、重大灾害、公共安全和重大经济金融问题等一系列全球性问题，也使我们面临着共同的风险与挑战。各国都在思考，力图在反思过去中把握未来，在应对挑战中创造机遇。在21世纪第二个十年之际，人类社会的生产和生活方式孕育着巨大转变。开辟人类社会的光明未来，需要新的视野、新的智慧、新的方法、新的科技，更需要世界各国携手并肩、共同努力。

The world today is in the thick of major development, transformation and readjustments. The deep-going pace of economic globalization has fused the destinies of the people of all countries in a kith and kin relationship. Humanity has achieved unprecedented prosperity and civilization, but at the same time, we are confronted with unforeseen risks and challenges, which find expression in a series of global problems in climatic changes, environmental protection, grain safety, the prevention and treatment of diseases, major disasters, public security and crucial economic and monetary issues. Reflecting on the past, every nation today is endeavoring to grasp the future and create opportunities while rising to the challenges. As the new millennium enters its second decade, monumental changes are brewing in the mode of production and lifestyles of the human society. We are in urgent need of new ideas, wisdoms, methods, science and technology, but more than anything else, we need to close our ranks and concert our ef
forts so that we can create a promising future for the human society.

作为拥有世界五分之一人口的国家和快速发展的新兴经济体，中国正处于全面建设小康社会的关键时期。尽管新中国成立60年来，我国经济总量增长77倍，城镇居民收入增长150倍，农村居民收入增长100倍，人均寿命从35岁提高到73岁，但中国仍然是一个有着13亿人口的发展中国家，正在进行着世界历史上最大规模的工业化、城镇化进程。在前进的道路上，我们面临着区域发展不平衡、贫富差距、资源环境制约、经济增长的质量和效益不高、转型时期社会矛盾复杂等严峻挑战，迫切需要增添新的发展动力，培育新的发展优势，实现经济社会全面协调可持续发展。为此，中国提出以人为本、科学发展的理念，把转变发展方式作为全局性的战略举措。我们倡导创新发展，即依靠科技进步培育战略性新兴产业和改造传统产业，走创新驱动、内生增长的路子；我们倡导绿色发展，即推动节能减排和低碳发展，努力建设资源节约型和环境友好型社会；我们倡导和谐发展，即切实改善民生，深化经济体制改革和政治体制改革，推进民主法制建设和维护社会公平正义，为每个人的全面发展创造更好的环境；我们倡导和平发展，即以自身的发展给全球发展带来更多的贡献和机会，与世界各国平等合作、互利共赢，共同建设持久和平、共同繁荣的和谐世界。中国所选择的科学发展道路，是既对自己未来负责、也对世界未来负责的发展道路。

China is a fast growing rising economy that embraces one fifth of the global population, and its all-round effort to build up an affluent society is now in a critical stage. Over the last 60 or so years, New China has increased its economic aggregates by 77-fold, its urban residents’ income by 150-fold, its rural residents’ earnings by 100-folds, and its per-capita life expectancy from 35 to 73 years. Despite all these solid facts, China today remains a developing country whose 1.3 billion people are pursuing industrialization and urbanization on a scale unmatched in world history. Our road of development has been fraught with stern challenges, including resource and environmental constraints, low-quality economic growth, and complex social conflicts that are typical of a society in transition. New driving forces and new sources of growth are badly needed in this country in order to achieve all-round, coordinated and sustainable socioeconomic development. That is why the Chinese government has initiated the concept of placing human beings before anything else, adopted a concept of scientific development, and set transforming the mode of development as its overriding strategy. We advocate innovative development, rely on progress in science and technology to cultivate new and strategic industries and revamp traditional industries, and follow the road of renovating the incentives and promoting growth from within the economy. We advocate eco-friendly development, save energy, reduce waste discharge, advance low-carbon development, and strive to build a society that is resource-economical and conservation-conscious. We advocate harmonious development, improve people’s livelihood in a down-to-earth way, promote democracy and the rule of law, safeguard social equity and justice, and furnish a better environment for the all-round development of every citizen. We champion peaceful development, seek to contribute more to the world and bring more opportunities to it through our own development. We collaborate with other nations on an equal and mutually beneficial footing and for an all-win situation, and join them in building a congenial world of lasting peace and common prosperity. Ours is a road of scientific development with a high sense of responsibility for China itself and for the future of the world as well.

女士们，先生们：更多信息请访问：http://www.engbus.cn/ 

Ladies and Gentlemen!

教育是一个国家和民族振兴发展最根本的事业。中国先贤曾说，“敬教劝学，建国之大本；兴贤育才，为政之先务”。过去30年中国快速发展离不开教育的支撑，决定中国未来发展的关键在人才，基础还是在教育。正因如此，中国确立了科教兴国战略，始终把教育放在优先发展的地位。建成了拥有2.6亿学生的世界最大规模的教育体系，九年制义务教育全面实现免费，高等教育毛入学率从30年前的1%提升到24%，财政教育投入10年来年均增长19%。特别是由于国际金融危机冲击导致财政收入减缓情况下，去年教育投入仍然增长25%，其中投入800亿元为1000万中小学教师增加工资。

Education is the most fundamental of all undertakings for a nation’s rejuvenation and development. Just as a Chinese wise man of yore put it, “Respecting education and persuading people to learn are fundamental to the building of a nation; promoting virtue and nurturing talent are foremost tasks of government.” China’s fast growth over the last 30 or so years would not have happened without the support of education. China’s future hinges on talents, and the basis of its development rests with education. That is why we have adopted a strategy to rejuvenate the nation through science and education, and always put a premium on education development. We are in the possession of the world’s largest education system with 260 million students; free nine-year compulsory education has become the norm across the land; the gross attendance rate of higher education has risen from 1% three decades ago to 24% today; fiscal funding for education has registered an average annual growth rate of 19% over the last decade. It is worth noting that last year, despite a slowdown in the fiscal revenue’s growth rate in the aftermath of the international monetary crisis, our government increased its education funding by 25%, including 80 billion yuan that was spent to raise the salaries of 10 million primary and middle school teachers.

同时，全面布局未来十年的教育发展蓝图，研究制定《国家中长期教育改革和发展规划纲要》，提出到2020年普及从学前到高中阶段教育、形成惠及全民的公平教育、提供更加丰富的优质教育、构建体系完备的终身教育，使教育更加适应经济社会发展和人的全面发展的要求，让人民生活得更加幸福、更有尊严。

In the meantime, the nation has worked out the State Outline -- Program for Medium Long-Term Education Reform and Development. Among other things, this blueprint for education development in the 2010-2020 period calls for universalizing education from preschool to senior middle school, delivering education equally to every one, offering quality education in richer and more varied ways, furnishing an integral framework for lifelong education, better adapt education to the requirements of socioeconomic development and of comprehensive human development, and letting our people live in more bliss and with dignity.

大学作为教育事业的最高殿堂，是培育创新人才的高地，是新知识、新思想、新科技诞生的摇篮，是人类生存与发展的精神家园。面对世界经济社会发展的新趋势、中国现代化建设的新任务、人类多样文明和谐共生的新潮流，大学在引领未来中承担着前所未有的崇高使命和历史重任。为此，在未来十年里，我们确立建设中国特色、世界水平现代高等教育的努力方向，将推进办学理念、培养模式和体制机制创新，优化结构，加大投入，建设高水平教师团队，推动大学人才培养、科学研究和社会服务三大功能相互促进、相得益彰，全面提高教育质量。

The supreme hall of education, the university is a platform for grooming innovative talents, a cradle for new knowledge, new ideas and new science and technology, and a spiritual home for the survival and development of humanity. In the face of the new tendency in global socioeconomic development, of the new tasks for the Chinese modernization drive, and of the new trend in which diverse civilizations seek to live in harmony, our universities haven taken it upon themselves an unprecedented mission that is at once noble and historical. In the next ten years we shall strive to develop world-caliber modern higher education in a distinctly Chinese way; we shall promote innovation in our school-running concept, mode of education and institutional mechanisms; optimize the structure and increase investment to build vast contingents of top-notch teachers; and we shall enable our universities’ three major functions -- talent cultivation, scientific research and service -- to promote and supplement each other, and boost education quality in an all-round way.

第一，我们将进一步彰显大学人才培养功能，以开放合作集聚人才培养的新优势。

Firstly, we shall give further precedence to universities’ education function, and pool competent talents to cultivate new national strengths by way of opening up and cooperation.

当代大学所面临的诸多挑战与考验中，最为关键的是提高人才培养质量，这已经成为21世纪世界高等教育发展的主流，也是中国高等教育发展的核心。

As the most critical challenge confronting universities in the contemporary world, raising education quality is not only the mainstream in higher education development across the world in the 21st-century, but also the central task for China’s higher education development.

我们将大力改革传统的人才培养模式和评价制度，一是更加注重创新性，增强学生的创新精神、实践能力和社会责任感；二是更加注重综合性，促进学生全面发展、提升适应未来社会变化的能力；三是更加注重包容性，培育学生的国际视野和尊重多元文化的博大胸怀；四是更加注重选择性，为学生创造更加灵活多样的学习机会。

We shall spare no effort to overhaul the traditional mode and system of evaluation by attaching more importance, firstly, to innovation, which means to enhance our students’ innovative spirit, practical ability and social sense of responsibility; secondly, to comprehensiveness, which means to promote all-round student development and enable them to better adapt themselves to future social changes; thirdly, to magnanimity, which means to foster, in our students, a global vision and high-minded respect for diverse cultures; fourthly, to selectivity, which means to provide our students with more flexible and diverse learning opportunities.

我们将通过开放合作汇聚最优质的教育资源，大幅提升人才培养的质量。我们将完善专博结合、文理兼容的课程新体系，为学生构建更为全面的知识结构。

We shall accumulate quality education resources through opening up and cooperation to vastly improve the quality in university education. We shall put forward a completely new curriculum that combines special and general learning and encompasses subjects in both liberal arts and sciences, so as to make a more comprehensive knowledge structure available to our students.

我们将创立大学与科研院所、行业企业联合培养的新机制，使学生在参与科学研究和建设项目中提高实践能力。

We shall create new mechanisms by which universities can teach in collaboration with research institutes, industries and enterprises, and by which students can improve their fieldwork capabilities by taking part in research and construction projects.

我们将探索中外大学合作培养人才的新模式，引进优秀教师和扩大互派留学生规模，推进人才培养的优势互补。

We shall also explore new patterns of cooperation between Chinese and foreign universities in grooming talents, recruit outstanding teachers from abroad, expand exchanges of students with other nations, and encourage our universities and their foreign counterparts to supplement and benefit each other in teaching and learning.

第二，我们将进一步强化大学的科学研究功能，以联合共享开辟科学进步的新领域。

Secondly, we shall further intensify universities’ function in scientific research and open up new fields of scientific progress by way of cooperation and mutual sharing of resources.

当前，全球处于新的科技革命的前夜，世界正迎来创新密集与产业振兴时代，跨学科交叉融合和跨领域、跨国界合作共享成为科学研究的重要趋势。中国把发展新能源、信息网络、生物医药、先进制造等战略性新兴产业作为经济结构调整的战略方向，鼓励大学在创新重大基础理论和突破技术瓶颈中发挥重要作用。

The world today is on the eve of a new revolution in science and technology, and ushering in an epoch of intensive innovation and industrial revitalization. Interdisciplinary integration and cooperation across fields and national boundaries are fast catching on in scientific research. China has shifted its economic restructuring strategy to development of new energy sources, information networking, biopharmacology, advanced manufacturing, and other rising industries of strategic importance, and our universities have a major role to play in renovating crucial basic theories and lifting technological bottlenecks on the chain of economic development.

中国积极参与应对全球重大共同挑战，鼓励大学加强经济金融、历史文化、民主法治、社会建设等人文社会科学研究，在尊重文明的多样性、促进跨文化交流、研究不同发展模式和构建合理的国际政治、经济新秩序等问题上提供智力支持。

In rising up to major global challenges, China encourages its universities to step up researches in economics and finance, history, culture, democracy, the rule of law, social development and other fields of humanities and social sciences. The nation provides intellectual support on the causes to respect diverse civilizations, promote trans-cultural exchanges, study different modes of development, and foster a sensible framework of international politics and a new economic order.

我们倡导大学遵循科学研究的内在规律，自由自主地开展科学探索。我们将进一步构建大学、科研院所和企业相互开放的格局，促进科技资源联合共享，提高科学研究的效率和水平。我们将培育跨学科的教学科研团队，推动学科交叉融合，催生新的学科生长点。我们将支持不同国家、不同大学间通过建设联合实验室、联合研发基地等创新平台，开展多种形式的合作，以激发创新潜能，产生倍增效应。

We encourage our universities to follow the inherent laws governing scientific research and to let go of themselves in exploring into unvisited territories. We step up a pattern in which universities, research institutes and enterprises can reach out to each other, promote the sharing of scientific and technological resources, and raise the efficiency and level in scientific researches. We cultivate teams for interdisciplinary teaching and researches, encourage interaction between disciplines, and speed up the incubation of new sources of disciplinary growth. We encourage nations and universities to collaborate in various forms, including building joint laboratories, research and development centers and other innovative platforms that help tap innovative potentials and allow research results to multiple.

第三，我们将进一步拓展大学的社会服务功能，以引领开拓创新文明进步的新空间。

Thirdly, we shall further extend our universities’ function in social service and encourage them to play a leadership role in opening up new vistas for progress in civilization.

大学只有与社会紧密互动，才能彰显自身价值，真正服务社会、引领社会。只有将理论研究与创新成果回馈社会，才能真正体现出大学的功能与成就。

A university can let its value shine through, truly put itself at society’s service, and become a leader only when it can interact intimately with society. Only by feeding its research and innovation results back to society can a university’s functions and achievements be embodied.

我们主张大学广泛参与科学普及，传播先进文化，提高公众的科学素养和人文素养，成为社会文明风尚的引领者。我们倡导大学形成富有特色的创新文化，这是优秀人才和创新成果不断涌现的深厚土壤。我们鼓励大学主动参与区域经济社会发展，发挥思想库和智囊团的作用。

We maintain that universities must be extensively involved in popularizing science, disseminating advanced culture, and raising public attainments in science and humanities, and that they must also work to become trend-setters for civilization and social mores. We encourage every university to foster a distinctively innovative culture and turn it into a rich soil for the growth of outstanding talents and inventions. We encourage university students to take the initiative into their own hands in regional socioeconomic development, and we set great store by the roles of brain banks and think tanks.

今天，许多富有远见的企业家加入到论坛中，展现了校企合作的强烈愿望。我们主张产学研用紧密结合，积极推进大学加快科研成果转化和产业化，帮助企业提高技术和管理水平，也鼓励企业支持大学提高办学水平，这既是大学服务社会的重要方式，也彰显了企业的社会责任。

Today, we are happy to see many far-sighted entrepreneurs participate in this forum to show their ardent desire for university-enterprise collaboration. We believe that production, scholarship, research and application should be closely combined; we go all out to speed up the conversion of university research results into real productivity; and we encourage universities to help enterprises upgrade their technology and management and urge enterprises to support universities in raising their school-running level. These are important ways for universities to serve society and for enterprises to honor their social responsibilities.

大学作为文明传承的重要载体，还应当自觉承担起人文交流的功能。人文交流是人与人之间心与心的交流，具有基础性、先导性、广泛性和持久性。大学要成为人文交流的先锋，为促进人类多样文明和谐共生作出更大贡献。只有越来越多的人们尊重和欣赏彼此的文化，才能超越社会制度、意识形态和发展模式的差异，实现建设和谐世界的美好愿望。

As major carriers of our nation’s cultural heritage, universities should also consciously perform their function in promoting exchanges in humanities. Such exchanges pave the way for people-to-people, heart-to-heart communication, and are therefore fundamental, pioneering, extensive and sustainable. Universities should pioneer in such exchanges and make still greater contributions to the diversity, harmony and coexistence of civilizations. Only when more and more people come to respect and enjoy each other’s cultures can they overcome differences in social system, ideology and mode of development and see their wish for a harmonious world come true.

女士们、先生们：

Ladies and Gentlemen!

虽然我们已经进入了网络时代，但虚拟空间代替不了面对面的坦率交流，高清晰度的视频代替不了真实的笑脸。来自不同国度、不同信仰、不同文化背景的校长与企业家们集聚一堂，相互启迪、凝聚共识、激发创造，这对于高等教育发展乃至社会发展都将产生广泛而持续的影响。

We are right in the Age of the Internet, but virtual space cannot replace candid face-to-face exchanges, and high-definition television cannot replace a real-life winsome smile. The fact that university presidents and entrepreneurs of different nations, faiths and cultural backgrounds can come together to inspire each other, seek consensuses, and promote innovation will have an extensive and sustained impact on education development -- an impact that will also extend to society as well.

今天在座的各位都是高等教育界和企业界的优秀领导者。“他山之石，可以攻玉”。我衷心希望大家携起手来，进一步提高论坛的层次，丰富论坛的内容，使论坛成为交流思想、分享智慧的互动平台，成为务实合作、共同发展的开放平台，成为加强沟通、增进互信的友谊平台，成为立足前沿、国际知名的高端平台。相信通过大家的努力，将引领高等教育走向新的发展高度，为世界和平与人类进步事业贡献智慧和力量！

All those present today are outstanding leaders in higher education and the business world. As the old saying goes, “There are always other hills whose stones are good for working jade” – meaning that the advice from someone else may help overcome one’s own weaknesses. It is therefore my sincere hope that we shall work hand in hand to elevate and enrich this forum and turn it into an interactive platform for exchanging ideas and sharing wisdom, an open platform for pragmatic cooperation and common development, a friendship platform for enhancing communication and mutual trust, and a high-end platform that towers over the frontiers and puts its name on the world map. It is my belief that with our concerted efforts, we shall be able to lead higher education to a new height of development and contribute our wisdom and strength to world peace and the progressive cause of humanity.

最后，预祝第四届中外大学校长论坛取得圆满成功！

Finally, let me wish the Fourth Chinese-Foreign University Presidents Forum a resounding success.

谢谢大家！

Thank you!