第一篇：TED演講：Jay Walker談中國(guó)英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)狂熱

TED演講：Jay Walker談中國(guó)英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)狂熱

Let's talk about manias.Let's start with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea--get the ball in the net.Okay, religious mania: there's rapture, there's weeping, there's visions.Manias can be good.Manias can be alarming.Or manias can be deadly.讓我們來(lái)談?wù)効駸?。先從甲殼蟲熱說(shuō)起。歇斯底里的少年們：高呼，尖叫，喧囂。體育熱：震耳欲聾的人群，都是為了一個(gè)目標(biāo)，讓球入網(wǎng)。還有宗教熱：有歡笑、也有淚水還有夢(mèng)想?？駸峥赡苡幸?，也可能會(huì)令人擔(dān)憂。有時(shí)狂熱可能會(huì)很致命。

The world has a new mania.A mania for learning English.Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.現(xiàn)在，世界上有種新的狂熱。學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的狂熱。下面聽聽中國(guó)學(xué)生用高聲叫喊的方式練習(xí)英語(yǔ)。

Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.JayWalker:全世界現(xiàn)在有多少人學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)？20億

JW: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China.If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law.That's why this year China will become the world's largest English-speaking country.(Laughter)Why English? In a single word: Opportunity.Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table.Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days.Her score on this one test literally determines her future.She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare.25 percent of her grade is based on English.It's called the Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it.JW：在拉丁美洲、印度、東南亞和幾乎整個(gè)中國(guó)。如果你是名中國(guó)學(xué)生，根據(jù)法律要求，你在小學(xué)三年級(jí)就得開始學(xué)英語(yǔ)。這就是為什么今年（2009年）中國(guó)會(huì)成為全世界最大的講英語(yǔ)的國(guó)家。（笑聲）為什么是英語(yǔ)？用一個(gè)詞來(lái)回答就是：機(jī)會(huì)。一個(gè)獲得更好的生活、工作的機(jī)會(huì)。可以上得起學(xué)，可以吃上更好的食物。想象一個(gè)學(xué)生用整整三天時(shí)間參加一次大考。她的這次考試成績(jī)幾乎決定她的未來(lái)前途。為了準(zhǔn)備這次考試，她在三年的時(shí)間里，每天學(xué)習(xí)12小時(shí)。而這次考試25%的成績(jī)是由英語(yǔ)決定。這個(gè)考試叫做高考。有8000萬(wàn)中國(guó)高中生參加過(guò)這個(gè)“獨(dú)木橋”考試。學(xué)英語(yǔ)的強(qiáng)度幾乎不可想象，除非你親眼目睹。

JW: So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Not likely.English is the world's second language.Your native language is your life.But with English you can become part of a wider conversation: a global conversation about global problems, like climate change or poverty, or hunger or disease.The world has other universal languages.Mathematics is the language of science.Music is the language of emotions.And now English is becoming the language of problem-solving.Not because America is pushing it, but because the world is pulling it.So English mania is a turning point.Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future--a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.JW：那么這股英語(yǔ)熱是好是壞呢？英語(yǔ)是不是海嘯，會(huì)席卷其它所有語(yǔ)言？不太可能。英語(yǔ)是世界第二大語(yǔ)言。你的母語(yǔ)就是你的人生。但英語(yǔ)可以讓你參與更大范圍的討論：關(guān)于全球性問(wèn)題的全球范圍內(nèi)的討論。比如氣候變化、貧窮、饑餓或疾病。這個(gè)世界上還有其它的全球性語(yǔ)言。數(shù)學(xué)是科學(xué)的語(yǔ)言。音樂(lè)是感情的語(yǔ)言。現(xiàn)在，英語(yǔ)正在成為解決問(wèn)題的語(yǔ)言。這并非因?yàn)槊绹?guó)促使其如此，而是因?yàn)槿澜绲男枰?。所以英語(yǔ)熱是一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。就像利用城市電力，或柏林墻的倒塌，英語(yǔ)代表著更加美好的未來(lái)的希望，到那時(shí)全世界就可以用共同語(yǔ)言解決共同的問(wèn)題。

Thank you very much.(Applause)非常感謝大家。（掌聲）

第二篇：TED演講：Jay_Walker談中國(guó)英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)狂熱 2

English Mania

Let's talk about manias.Let's start with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea--get the ball in the net.Okay, religious mania: there's rapture, there's weeping, there's visions.Manias can be good.Manias can be alarming.Or manias can be deadly.讓我們來(lái)談?wù)効駸帷Ｏ葟募讱はx熱說(shuō)起。歇斯底里的少年們：高呼，尖叫，喧囂。體育熱：震耳欲聾的人群，都是為了一個(gè)目標(biāo)，讓球入網(wǎng)。還有宗教熱：有歡笑、也有淚水還有夢(mèng)想。狂熱可能有益，也可能會(huì)令人擔(dān)憂。有時(shí)狂熱可能會(huì)很致命。

The world has a new mania——A mania for learning English.Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.現(xiàn)在，世界上有種新的狂熱。學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的狂熱。下面聽聽中國(guó)學(xué)生用高聲叫喊的方式練習(xí)英語(yǔ)。

Teacher:...change my life!

Students: I will change my life.S: I don't want to let my parents down.T: I don't ever want to let my country down.S: I don't ever want to let my country down.T: Most importantly...S: Most importantly.T: I don't want to let myself down.S: I don't want to let myself down.T: I don't want to let my parents down.Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.JW: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China.If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law.That's why this year China will become the world's largest English-speaking country.Why English? In a single word: Opportunity——Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table.Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days.Her score on this one test literally determines her future.She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare.25 percent of her grade is based on English.It's called the Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it.JW：在拉丁美洲、印度、東南亞和幾乎整個(gè)中國(guó)。如果你是名中國(guó)學(xué)生，根據(jù)法律要求，你在小學(xué)三年級(jí)就得開始學(xué)英語(yǔ)。這就是為什么今年（2009年）中國(guó)會(huì)成為全世界最大的講英語(yǔ)的國(guó)家。為什么是英語(yǔ)？用一個(gè)詞來(lái)回答就是：機(jī)會(huì)。一個(gè)獲得更好的生活、工作的機(jī)會(huì)?？梢陨系闷饘W(xué)，可以吃上更好的食物。想象一個(gè)學(xué)生用整整三天時(shí)間參加一次大考。她的這次考試成績(jī)幾乎決定她的未來(lái)前途。為了準(zhǔn)備這次考試，她在三年的時(shí)間里，每天學(xué)習(xí)12小時(shí)。而這次考試25%的成績(jī)是由英語(yǔ)決定。這個(gè)考試叫做高考。有8000萬(wàn)中國(guó)高中生參加過(guò)這個(gè)“獨(dú)木橋”考試。學(xué)英語(yǔ)的強(qiáng)度幾乎不可想象，除非你親眼目睹。

T: I want to speak perfect English.S: I want to speak perfect English.T: I want to change my life!

S: I want to change my life!

JW: So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Not likely.English is the world's second language.Your native language is your life.But with English you can become part of a wider conversation: a global conversation about global problems, like climate change or poverty, or hunger or disease.The world has other universal languages.Mathematics is the language of science.Music is the language of emotions.And now English is becoming the language of problem-solving.Not because America is pushing it, but because the world is pulling it.So English mania is a turning point.Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future--a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.JW：那么這股英語(yǔ)熱是好是壞呢？英語(yǔ)是不是海嘯，會(huì)席卷其它所有語(yǔ)言？不太可能。英語(yǔ)是世界第二大語(yǔ)言。你的母語(yǔ)就是你的人生。但英語(yǔ)可以讓你參與更大范圍的討論：關(guān)于全球性問(wèn)題的全球范圍內(nèi)的討論。比如氣候變化、貧窮、饑餓或疾病。這個(gè)世界上還有其它的全球性語(yǔ)言。數(shù)學(xué)是科學(xué)的語(yǔ)言。音樂(lè)是感情的語(yǔ)言?，F(xiàn)在，英語(yǔ)正在成為解決問(wèn)題的語(yǔ)言。這并非因?yàn)槊绹?guó)促使其如此，而是因?yàn)槿澜绲男枰?。所以英語(yǔ)熱是一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。就像利用城市電力，或柏林墻的倒塌，英語(yǔ)代表著更加美好的未來(lái)的希望，到那時(shí)全世界就可以用共同語(yǔ)言解決共同的問(wèn)題。

第三篇：TED演講：Jay-Walker談中國(guó)英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)狂熱

Let's talk about manias.Let's start with Beatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.Sports mania: deafening crowds, all for one idea--get the ball in the net.Okay, religious mania: there's rapture, there's weeping, there's visions.Manias can be good.Manias can be alarming.Or manias can be deadly.讓我們來(lái)談?wù)効駸帷Ｏ葟募讱はx熱說(shuō)起。歇斯底里的少年們：高呼，尖叫，喧囂。體育熱：震耳欲聾的人群，都是為了一個(gè)目標(biāo)，讓球入網(wǎng)。還有宗教熱：有歡笑、也有淚水還有夢(mèng)想?？駸峥赡苡幸妫部赡軙?huì)令人擔(dān)憂。有時(shí)狂熱可能會(huì)很致命。

The world has a new mania.A mania for learning English.Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.現(xiàn)在，世界上有種新的狂熱。學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的狂熱。下面聽聽中國(guó)學(xué)生用高聲叫喊的方式練習(xí)英語(yǔ)。

Teacher:...change my life!

老師：...改變我的生活！

Students: I will change my life.學(xué)生：我要改變我的命運(yùn)。

T: I don't want to let my parents down.老師：我不想讓父母失望。

S: I don't want to let my parents down.學(xué)生：我不想讓父母失望。

T: I don't ever want to let my country down.老師：我從不想讓國(guó)家失望。

S: I don't ever want to let my country down.學(xué)生：我從不想讓國(guó)家失望。

T: Most importantly...S: Most importantly...老師：最重要的...學(xué)生：最重要的...T: I don't want to let myself down.老師：我不想讓我自己失望。

S: I don't want to let myself down.學(xué)生：我不想讓我自己失望。

Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.JayWalker:全世界現(xiàn)在有多少人學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)？20億

Students: A t-shirt.A dress.學(xué)生：一件T恤。一條裙子。

JW: In Latin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China.If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law.That's why this year China will become the world's largest English-speaking country.(Laughter)Why English? In a single word: Opportunity.Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table.Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days.Her score on this one test literally determines her future.She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare.25 percent of her grade is based on English.It's called the Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken this grueling test.The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless you witness it.JW：在拉丁美洲、印度、東南亞和幾乎整個(gè)中國(guó)。如果你是名中國(guó)學(xué)生，根據(jù)法律要求，你在小學(xué)三年級(jí)就得開始學(xué)英語(yǔ)。這就是為什么今年（2009年）中國(guó)會(huì)成為全世界最大的講英語(yǔ)的國(guó)家。（笑聲）為什么是英語(yǔ)？用一個(gè)詞來(lái)回答就是：機(jī)會(huì)。一個(gè)獲得更好的生活、工作的機(jī)會(huì)?？梢陨系闷饘W(xué)，可以吃上更好的食物。想象一個(gè)學(xué)生用整整三天時(shí)間參加一次大考。她的這次考試成績(jī)幾乎決定她的未來(lái)前途。為了準(zhǔn)備這次考試，她在三年的時(shí)間里，每天學(xué)習(xí)12小時(shí)。而這次考試25%的成績(jī)是由英語(yǔ)決定。這個(gè)考試叫做高考。有8000萬(wàn)中國(guó)高中生參加過(guò)這個(gè)“獨(dú)木橋”考試。學(xué)英語(yǔ)的強(qiáng)度幾乎不可想象，除非你親眼目睹。

Teacher: Perfect!Students: Perfect!

老師：完美！學(xué)生：完美！

T: Perfect!S: Perfect!

老師：完美！學(xué)生：完美！

T: I want to speak perfect English.老師：我想講完美的英語(yǔ)

S: I want to speak perfect English.學(xué)生：我想講完美的英語(yǔ)

T: I want to speak--S: I want to speak--

老師：我想說(shuō)--學(xué)生：我想說(shuō)--

T: perfect English.S: perfect English.學(xué)生：完美的英語(yǔ)。學(xué)生：完美的英語(yǔ)

T: I want to change my life!

老師：我要改變我的命運(yùn)！

S: I want to change my life!

學(xué)生：我要改變我的命運(yùn)！

JW: So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Not likely.English is the world's second language.Your native language is your life.But with English you can become part of a wider conversation: a global conversation about global problems, like climate change or poverty, or hunger or disease.The world has other universal languages.Mathematics is the language of science.Music is the language of emotions.And now English is becoming the language of problem-solving.Not because America is pushing it, but because the world is pulling it.So English mania is a turning point.Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future--a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.JW：那么這股英語(yǔ)熱是好是壞呢？英語(yǔ)是不是海嘯，會(huì)席卷其它所有語(yǔ)言？不太可能。英語(yǔ)是世界第二大語(yǔ)言。你的母語(yǔ)就是你的人生。但英語(yǔ)可以讓你參與更大范圍的討論：關(guān)于全球性問(wèn)題的全球范圍內(nèi)的討論。比如氣候變化、貧窮、饑餓或疾病。這個(gè)世界上還有其它的全球性語(yǔ)言。數(shù)學(xué)是科學(xué)的語(yǔ)言。音樂(lè)是感情的語(yǔ)言。現(xiàn)在，英語(yǔ)正在成為解決問(wèn)題的語(yǔ)言。這并非因?yàn)槊绹?guó)促使其如此，而是因?yàn)槿澜绲男枰?。所以英語(yǔ)熱是一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。就像利用城市電力，或柏林墻的倒塌，英語(yǔ)代表著更加美好的未來(lái)的希望，到那時(shí)全世界就可以用共同語(yǔ)言解決共同的問(wèn)題。

Thank you very much.(Applause)

非常感謝大家。（掌聲）

第四篇：談「演講式英語(yǔ)」

[dvnews_page]去年有一天，我收到工商時(shí)報(bào)記者李水蓮小姐電子郵件，她問(wèn)我可否接受她的訪問(wèn)，談?wù)動(dòng)嘘P(guān)「演講式英語(yǔ)」，因她要在該報(bào)「企業(yè)巡禮」版中報(bào)導(dǎo)「劉毅英文家教班」的「演講式英語(yǔ)」。我知道「演講式英語(yǔ)」是該班名師劉毅老師研發(fā)的一種英語(yǔ)教學(xué)方法，此種方法就是英文背誦演講化，而非單純倒背如流的背誦。背誦時(shí)要有抑揚(yáng)頓挫之外，還

要有肢體動(dòng)作，如同演講一般，如此可使枯燥的背誦活潑、生動(dòng)、有趣。背誦是一個(gè)古老的但是仍舊是最好的學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)文的方法(RecitationisanoldbutstillthebestwaytostudyEnglish)。因?yàn)椤秆葜v式英語(yǔ)」頗受歡迎，所以我便同意可以接受她的電話訪問(wèn)，并請(qǐng)她先寄一份訪談綱要給我，以為準(zhǔn)備。以下就是李小姐2002年12月3日在工商時(shí)報(bào)「企業(yè)巡禮」版中訪談?！居浾呃钏徟_(tái)北報(bào)導(dǎo)】全球化知識(shí)經(jīng)濟(jì)時(shí)代來(lái)臨，國(guó)際共通的語(yǔ)言「英語(yǔ)」，已成為大家追求的目標(biāo)，大家如何跨出開口說(shuō)英語(yǔ)的瓶頸，很有自信的講一口流暢的英語(yǔ)，以滿足學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的想象與需求。為了滿足學(xué)英語(yǔ)的需求，最近國(guó)內(nèi)「演講式英語(yǔ)」的學(xué)習(xí)風(fēng)潮就像哈力波特似的受到風(fēng)靡，不論大人或小孩都能聚集一堂，透過(guò)「演講式英語(yǔ)」訓(xùn)練，人人敢開口說(shuō)英語(yǔ)，「演講式英語(yǔ)」是不是真的具有魔法讓每個(gè)人肯開口暢所欲言？學(xué)英語(yǔ)該如何掌握要訣學(xué)好英語(yǔ)？英語(yǔ)與英文究竟有何不同？

記者采訪了前政大外國(guó)語(yǔ)文學(xué)院院長(zhǎng)金陵教授，聽聽他的看法。他曾任「語(yǔ)言訓(xùn)練測(cè)驗(yàn)中心」全民英驗(yàn)咨詢委員會(huì)委員，現(xiàn)任教育部人文及社會(huì)學(xué)科教育指導(dǎo)委員會(huì)委員，及金陵英語(yǔ)教學(xué)網(wǎng)：「英語(yǔ)傳教士」（http://www.ep66.idv.tw/）的主持人，其中英文著作有「實(shí)用英文文法與修辭」及「英語(yǔ)英文怎么學(xué)」等二十余種。他開宗明義指出，學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的步驟是聽、說(shuō)、讀、寫，循序漸進(jìn)。但聽跟講是英語(yǔ)，讀跟寫是英文。英文是無(wú)聲的語(yǔ)言，英語(yǔ)是有聲的文字。因此，英文好的人，不一定英語(yǔ)也好；反之，英語(yǔ)好的人，不一定英文就好，所以學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)跟英文的人必須具備該一基本認(rèn)識(shí)，對(duì)癥下藥，才能有較快、較大的進(jìn)步。以下是訪談金陵教授摘要。

問(wèn)：「演講式英語(yǔ)」教材內(nèi)容具有何特色，在語(yǔ)言學(xué)習(xí)上具有何特質(zhì)？

答：要說(shuō)一口流暢的英語(yǔ)，首先必須具備說(shuō)英語(yǔ)的基本四大要素「語(yǔ)音、語(yǔ)調(diào)、節(jié)奏、與連音」，「演講式英語(yǔ)」具備了這四大要素，而且透過(guò)生動(dòng)活潑的演講，以提高學(xué)習(xí)的興趣與效果。每一篇演講稿，以三句為一組，組和組之間巧妙安排，讓這四大基本要素不斷重現(xiàn)。

問(wèn)：您認(rèn)為「演講式英語(yǔ)」教材，可以讓學(xué)習(xí)英文的人達(dá)到聽、說(shuō)、讀、寫全面的程度嗎？

答：背誦英文，對(duì)寫作有幫助，所謂「熟讀唐詩(shī)三百首，不會(huì)吟詩(shī)也會(huì)吟」，「讀書破萬(wàn)卷，下筆如有神」，「演講式英語(yǔ)」不但具備了聽與講的英語(yǔ)優(yōu)勢(shì)、同時(shí)兼具了讀與寫的英文特色。

問(wèn)：國(guó)內(nèi)缺乏講英語(yǔ)的環(huán)境，一旦遇到老外，一緊張，所有的詞兒都忘記了，你認(rèn)為平時(shí)就該如何準(zhǔn)備習(xí)？

答：營(yíng)造學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)的環(huán)境很重要，自己要?jiǎng)?chuàng)造英語(yǔ)環(huán)境，就必須不斷的聽錄音帶、廣播、CD及跟同好一起練習(xí)對(duì)話等，因?yàn)椴粩嗟鸟雎?，久了即可建立「聲音記憶」。「演講式英語(yǔ)」，只要在訓(xùn)練開口講、自信與膽識(shí)，每一篇若念一百遍，五十篇念下來(lái)，即可養(yǎng)成「語(yǔ)言習(xí)慣」，自然而然的朗朗上口，遇到外國(guó)人，即可習(xí)慣成自然地跟平常講國(guó)語(yǔ)一樣脫口而出。

問(wèn)：上班族，如何應(yīng)用「演講式英語(yǔ)」，在工作職場(chǎng)上，將其專業(yè)的英語(yǔ)文表現(xiàn)在工作上？

答：現(xiàn)在企業(yè)界為了與世界接軌，在工作上使用英語(yǔ)文的機(jī)會(huì)越來(lái)越多，因此，首先必須要求自己具有聽與說(shuō)英語(yǔ)的基本能力，由于外英，美人士講話時(shí)習(xí)慣用「連音」，講起話聽似速度很快，其實(shí)不然，為了讓自己習(xí)慣「連音」，必須在不斷地練習(xí)聽與講的同時(shí)，特別注意「連音」。上班族若能從「演講式英語(yǔ)」里，不斷訓(xùn)練聽與講，并增進(jìn)自己職場(chǎng)上的專業(yè)英語(yǔ)文領(lǐng)域，必能成為工作上的佼佼者。

第五篇：楊瀾TED演講：重塑中國(guó)的年輕一代

楊瀾TED演講：重塑中國(guó)的年輕一代 Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China

The night before I was heading for Scotland, I was invited to host the final of “China's Got Talent” show in Shanghai with the 80,000 live audience in the stadium.Guess who was the performing guest?Susan Boyle.And I told her, “I'm going to Scotland the next day.” She sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in Chinese.[Chinese]So it's not like “hello” or “thank you,” that ordinary stuff.It means “green onion for free.” Why did she say that? Because it was a line 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 “green onion for free.” So [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.You 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, “So, Miss Yang, do you have any questions to ask me?”I summoned my courage and poise and said,“Yes, but could you let me know, what actually do you sell?” I didn't have a clue what a sales department was about in a five-star 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, “Why [do] women's personalities on television always have to be beautiful, sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? Why can't they have their own ideas and their own voice?” I thought I kind 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 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, “Lan, you changed my life,” and I feel proud of that.But then we are also so fortunate to witness the transformation 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 micro blog, 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 micro blog.Micro blog boomed in the year of 2010, with visitors doubled and time spent on it tripled.Sina.com, a major news portal, alone has more than 140 million micro bloggers.On Tencent, 200 million.The 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 micro bloggers 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 micro blogging, we are able to understand Chinese youth even better.So how are they different? First of all, most of them were born in 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 college.But 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

coupleswill have to support four parents who have a life expectancy of 73 years old.So making a living is not that easy for young people.College graduates are not in short supply.In urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about 400 U.S.dollars a month, while the average rent is above $500.So what do they do? They have to share space--squeezed in very limited space to save money--and they call themselves “tribe of ants.” And for those who are ready to get married and buy their apartment, they figured out they have to work for 30 to 40 years to afford their first apartment.That ratio in America would only cost a couple five years to earn, but in China it's 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.Among the 200 million migrant workers, 60 percent of them are young people.They find themselves sort of sandwiched between the urban areas and the rural areas.Most of them don't want to go back to the countryside, but they don't have the sense of belonging.They work for longer hours with less income, less social welfare.And they're more vulnerable to job losses, subject to inflation,tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce.Last year, though, an appalling incident in a southern OEM manufacturing compound in China: 13 young workers in their late teens and early 20s committed suicide, just one by one like causing a contagious disease.But they died because of all different personal reasons.But this whole incident aroused a huge outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and mental, of these migrant workers.For those who do return back to the countryside,they find themselves very welcome locally,because with the knowledge, skills and networksthey have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the Internet, they're able to create more jobs,upgrade local agriculture and create new business in the less developed market.So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.These diagrams show a more general social background.The first one is the Engels coefficient,which explains that the cost of daily necessities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37-some percent.But then in the last two years, it goes up again to 39 percent, indicating a rising living cost.The Gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4.Now it's 0.5--even worse than that in America--showing us the income inequality.And so you see this whole society getting frustrated about losing some of its mobility.And also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the rich and the powerful is quite widespread.So any accusations of corruptionor backdoor dealings between authorities or business would arouse a social outcry or even unrest.So through some of the hottest topics on micro blogging, we can see what young people care most about.Social justice and government accountability runs the first in what they demand.For the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports on the forced demolition of private property.And it has aroused huge anger and frustration among our young generation.Sometimes people get killed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire to protest.So when these incidents are reported more and more frequently on the Internet,people cry for the government to take actions to stop this.So the good news is that earlier this year, the state council passed a new regulation on house requisition and demolition and passed the right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court.Similarly, many other issues concerning public safety is a hot topic on the Internet.We heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food.And guess what, we have faked beef.They have sorts of ingredients that you brush on a piece of chicken or fish, and it turns it to look like beef.And then lately, people are very concerned about cooking oil, because thousands of people have been found [refining] cooking oil from restaurant slop.So all these things have aroused a huge outcry from the Internet.And fortunately, we have seen the government responding more timely and also more frequently to the public concerns.While young people seem to be very sure about their participation in public policy-making, but sometimes they're a little bit lost in terms of what they want for their personal life.China is soon to pass the U.S.as the number one market for luxury brands--that's not including the Chinese expenditures in Europe and elsewhere.But you know what, half of those consumers are earning a salary below 2,000 U.S.dollars.They're not rich at all.They're taking those bags and clothes as a sense of identity and social status.And this is a girl explicitly saying on a TV dating show that she would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle.But of course, we do have young people who would still prefer to smile, whether in a BMW or [on] a bicycle.So in the next picture, you see a very popular phenomenon called “naked” wedding, or “naked” marriage.It does not mean they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these young couples are ready to get married without a house, without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding banquet, to show their commitment to true love.And also, people are doing good through social media.And the first picture showed us that a truck caging 500 homeless and kidnapped dogs for food processing was spotted and stopped on the highway with the whole country watching through micro blogging.People were donating money, dog food and offering volunteer work to stop that truck.And after hours of negotiation, 500 dogs were rescued.And here also people are helping to find missing children.A father posted his son's picture onto the Internet.After thousands of [unclear], the child was found, and we witnessed the reunion of the family through micro blogging.So happiness is the most popular word we have heard through the past two years.Happiness is not only related to personal experiences and personal values, but also, it's about the environment.People are thinking about the following questions: Are we going to sacrifice our environment further to produce higher GDP? How are we going to perform our social and political reform to keep pace with economic growth, to keep sustainability and stability? And also, how capable is the system of self-correctness to keep more people content with all sorts of friction going on at the same time?I guess these are the questions people are going to answer.And our younger generation are going to transform this country while at the same time being transformed themselves.Thank you very much.4