【正文】 d sessions of congress adopted amendents to the Constitution including the adition to the Constition of rulng the country according to law and also building a socialist legal system. We are doing legislative work every day. The Standing Committee of the NationaI People’s Congress is doing legislative work every State Council is drawing up adnministrative rules and regulations everyday. So we are improving our legal system and leslative work every day，and we are doing our job to protect the human rights of the entire Chinese people every day. And we will continue to do so. Foreign friends are wele to criticize us in our job but do not be too impatient．Actually，I am more impatient than you are. Do not support those socalled prodemocracy activists．If these people were to return to China，then there would be no legal system，no democracy，no rule of law in China. There would not be the sitluation as you would imagine. 日本共同社記者：日美兩國同意共同研究戰(zhàn)區(qū)導(dǎo)彈防御系統(tǒng)（TMD），這件事對(duì)日中兩國友好合作伙伴關(guān)系會(huì)帶來什么負(fù)面影響？觀察人士說，廣東國際信托投資公司倒閉案損害了包括日本在內(nèi)的外國金融機(jī)構(gòu)對(duì)中國的信用，您對(duì)此有何評(píng)論？還有，您任總理以后第一次訪日將于何時(shí)實(shí)現(xiàn)？ Japan and the United States have agreed to jointly develop the Theatre Missile Defence(THD）system. What negative impact do you think that will have on the friendly relationship and cooperation as well as the partnership between Japan and China？Some observers say that the bankruptcy of China’s Guangdong International Trust ＆ Investment Companv（Gitic）has actually made foreign financial Institutions, including some Japanese ones，lower their credit ratings for China，what is your ment on that？When will your first visit to Japan as premier take place？) 答：我們反對(duì)TMD，尤其堅(jiān)決反對(duì)把臺(tái)灣納入TMD，因?yàn)門MD不但違反了有關(guān)導(dǎo)彈的國際協(xié)議，也干涉了中國的內(nèi)政，是對(duì)中國主權(quán)和領(lǐng)土完整的侵犯。我就說：“不是嗎？”我說：“我比你大10歲，當(dāng)我冒著生命危險(xiǎn)同國民黨政權(quán)作斗爭，參加爭取中國的民主、自由、人權(quán)運(yùn)動(dòng)的時(shí)候，你還在上中學(xué)呢。由于加強(qiáng)了宏觀調(diào)控，使中國在兩年多一點(diǎn)的時(shí)間解決了經(jīng)濟(jì)過熱問題，改革開放和社會(huì)主義建設(shè)取得了很大成績。我們不要忘記歷史，歷史上曾經(jīng)有過這種草木皆兵、人人自危的時(shí)期，在美國有過這種時(shí)期，在中國也有過這種時(shí)期。但是，我也感覺到，有個(gè)別部門和地區(qū)沒有很好貫徹中央的方針政策。我最感動(dòng)的，是我在抗洪搶險(xiǎn)第一線看到我們的人民解放軍不顧一切地保衛(wèi)人民，甚至用身體保衛(wèi)堤防，我禁不住熱淚盈眶Over the past year，the Chinese Government has witnessed many severe tests and has also won extensive acclaim. My question is what was the most difficult task for you，what were you most dissatisfied with and what touched you the most over the past year? I think the past year was extremelv difflcult and the difficulties actually were greater than we anticipated. The first reason was that the effect of the Asian financial crisis was more serious than we had expected. And the second reason was that extremelv severe fIoodingwhich had been rarely seen in historyalso caused difficulties greater than we had expected. What l am satisfied with over the past year is that，under the leadership of the CentraI Committee of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Jiang Zemin at its core and with the concerted efforts of the entire Chinese people，we have overe these difficuties and stood rocksolid．I think that this was indeed very difficult．That’s why in my report on the work of the government，I said the achievements really are very hard won. What l am dissatisfied with is that l have not done a good job. However，at the same time l also feel that some departments and localities have failed to implement to the letter the policies and measures formulated by the Central Commjttee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. What touched me most over the past year was what l saw on the forefront of the fight against flooding. I saw People’s Liberation Army soldiers using their bodies to reinforce river embankments and to protect the lives and the safety of the people. When seeing that，I was almost moved to tears. 美國《時(shí)代》周刊記者：您再過幾天就將訪問美國，但是考慮到現(xiàn)在華盛頓出現(xiàn)了一種很不好的反華的情緒，看來您的美國之行就好像您要踏入另一片“雷區(qū)”。就是文化大革命。去年中國之所以能夠抵御亞洲金融危機(jī)的沖擊，就是因?yàn)槲覀冊(cè)?993年已經(jīng)發(fā)生了這種金融問題，幸好我們?cè)谒€未擴(kuò)大的時(shí)候就把它制止住了?！?It was in l993 that China set up its policy of macro regulation and control． That was a time when China had achieved great results after the widening of opening up to the outside world and deepening reform. Meanwhlle，there was also some overheating in the economic sector ,mainly in the real estate sector and the stock economic overheating resulted in a very high inflation rate of 21．7 per cent in l994. At that time Deng Xiaoping still alive. With his support，and also under the leadership of the CPC CentraI Committee with rade Jiang Zemin at the core，the decision was made to strengthen macro regulation and control．Sixteen measures were adopted，of which l3 were economic measures. And out of the 13 economic measures,11 were related to the banking and financial sector .Thanks to these 16 measures adopted aimed at strengthening macro regulation and control，within a period of a little more than two years，China successfully resolved the problem of economic overheating and resumed the momentum of economic growth，and also scored great achievements in socialist development. The reason why China had managed to avoid the impact of the Asian financial crisis last year was that it already experienced such a kind of financial crisis in l993． And, fortunately,we managed to check such financial crisis before it spread. And it was precisely because of the accumulated experiece of macro regulation and control that we were able to stand rock solid last year amid the Asian financial crisis I’d like to remend to you a February 16 article in The New York Times titled Would Aid Asia to Let Cash Flow in According to this article，the United States has played a part in promoting the oyerflow of capital in Asia.,that result in the eruption of the crisis in Asia. After the eruption of the crisis, international financial institutions came out to extend loans to these countries while acpanied by some policies which were not approprlate to their national conditions，such as proposals for fiscal austerity and raising interest rates，that actually agravated the crisis． I expressed the very same view last year during discussions with many foreign visitors，including Mr Alan Greenspan，Mr Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers, who were on the co