【正文】 and beyond have logged on to your web the dawn of a new century, this university is leading China into the e here today to talk to you, the next generation of China39。第一篇：美國克林頓總統(tǒng)在北京大學(xué)的演講稿美國克林頓總統(tǒng)在北京大學(xué)的演講稿PRESIDENT CLINTON:Thank you, President Chen, Chairmen Ren, Vice President Chi, Vice Minister are delighted to be here today with a very large American delegation, including the First Lady and our daughter, who is a student at Stanford, one of the schools with which Beijing University has a have six members of the United States Congress。m sure all of you know, this campus was once home to Yenching University which was founded by American of its wonderful buildings were designed by an American of Americans students and professors have e here to study and feel a special kinship with am, however, grateful that this day is different in one important respect from another important occasion 79 years June of 1919, the first president of Yenching University, John Leighton Stuart, was set to deliver the very first mencement address on these very the appointed hour, he appeared, but no students were all out leading the May 4th Movement for China39。the right to express one39。s struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation39。Senator Sasser, our Ambassador。s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the gases which are the principal cause of global the nations of the world do not reduce the gases which are cacooperationin challenges from dealing with spina bifida to dealing with extreme weather conditions and earthquakeshave proved what we can do together to change the lives of millions of people in China and the United States and around the our cooperation in science and technology can be one of our greatest gifts to the each of these vital areas that I have mentioned, we can clearly acplish so much more by walking together rather than standing is why we should work to see that the productive relationship we now enjoy blossoms into a fuller partnership in the new that is to happen, it is very important that we understand each other better, that we understand both our mon interest and our shared aspirations and our honest believe the kind of open, direct exchange that president Jiang and I had on Saturday at our press conferencewhich I know many of you watched on televisioncan both clarify and narrow our differences, and, more important, by allowing people to understand and debate and discuss these things can give a greater sense of confidence to our people that we can make a better the windows of the White House, where I live in Washington, ., the monument to our first president, George Washington, dominates the is a very tall very near this large monument there is a small stone which contains these words: The United States neither established titles of nobility and royalty, nor created a hereditary affairs are put to the vote of public created a new political situation, unprecedented from ancient times to the wonderful it words were not written by an were written by Xu Jiyu, governor of Fujian province, inscribed as a gift from the government of China to our nation in am very grateful for that gift from goes to the heart of who we are as a peoplethe right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the freedom to debate, to dissent, to associate, to worship without interference from the are the ideals that were at the core of our founding over 220 years are the ideas that led us across our continent and onto the world are the ideals that Americans cherish I said in my press conference with president Jiang, we have an ongoing quest ourselves to live up are up, poverty is down。s leaders, about the critical importance to your future of building a strong partnership between China and the United American people deeply admire China for its thousands of years of contributions to culture and religion, to philosophy and the arts, to science and remember well our strong partnership in World War we see China at a moment in history when your glorious past is matched by your present sweeping transformation and the even greater promise of your three decades ago, China was virtually shut off from the , China is a member of more than 1,000 international organizationsenterprises that affect everything from air travel to agricultural have opened your nation to trade and investment on a large , 40,000 young Chinese study in the United States, with hundreds of thousands more learning in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin social and economic transformation has been even more remarkable, moving from a closed mand economic system to a driving, increasingly marketbased and driven economy, generating two decades of unprecedented growth, giving people greater freedom to travel within and outside China, to vote in village elections, to own a home, choose a job, attend a better a result you have lifted literally hundreds of millions of people from capita ine has more than doubled in the last Chinese people are leading lives they could not have imagined just 20 years course, these changes have also brought disruptions in settled patterns of life and work, and have imposed enormous strains on your every urban Chinese was guaranteed employment in a state you must pete in a job a Chinese worker had only to meet the demands of a central planner in the global economy means all must match the quality and creativity of the rest of the those who lack the right training and skills and support, this new world can be the shortterm, good, hardworking peoplesome, at least will find themselves , as all of you can see, there have been enormous environmental and economic and health care costs to the development pattern and the energy use pattern of the last 20 yearsfrom air pollution to deforestation to acid rain and water the face of these challenges new systems of training and social security will have to be devised, and new environmental policies and techn