【正文】 thank you for being here, very much.(Applause.)Over the last 100 years, this university has grown to more than 20,000 graduates are spread throughout China and around the have built the largest university library in all of year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study, including half of your math and science in this anniversary year, more than a million people in China, Asia, 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。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 ater 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 ater 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 liftedliterally 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 guaranteedemployment 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 thelves , 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 technologies will have to be introduced with the goal of growing your economy while improving the I know about the intelligence, the ingenuity, the enterprise of the Chinese people and everything I have heard these last few days in my discussions with President Jiang, Prime Minister Zhu and others give me confidence that you will you build a new China, America wants to build a new relationship with want China to be successful, secure and open, working with us for a more peaceful and prosperous know there are those in China and the United States who question whether closer relations between our countries is a good everything all of us know about the way the world is changing and the challenges your generation will face tell us that our two nations will be far better off working together than late Deng Xiaoping counseled us to seek truth from the dawn of the new century, the facts are distance between our two nations, indeed, between any nations, is once an American clipper ship took months to cross from China to the United , technology has made us all virtual laptops to lasers, from microchips to megabytes, an information revolution is lighting the landscape of human knowledge, bringing us all closer , information, and money cross the planet at the stroke of a puter key, bringing with them extraordinary opportunities to create wealth, to prevent and conquer disease, to foster ater understanding among peoples of different histories and different we also know that this ater openness and faster change mean that problems which start beyond one nations borders can quickly move inside themthe spread of weapons of mass destruction, the threats of organized crime and drug trafficking, of environmental degradation, and severe economic nation can isolate itself from these problems, and no nation can solve them , especially the younger generations of China and the United States, must make mon cause of our mon challenges, so that we can, together, shape a new century of brilliant the 21st centuryyour centuryChina and the United States will face the challenge of security in the Korean Peninsula, where once we were adversaries, today we are working together for a permanent peace and a future freer of nuclear the Indian subcontinent, just as most of the rest of the world is moving away from nuclear danger, India and Pakistan risk sparking a new arms are now pursuing a mon strategy to move India and Pakistan away from further testing and toward a dialogue to resolve their the 21st century, your generation must face the challenge of stopping the spread of deadlier nuclear, chemical, and biological the wrong hands or the wrong places, these weapons can threaten the peace of nations large and , China and the United States ae on the importance of stopping is why we are beginning to act in concert to control the worlds most dangerous the 21st century, your generation will have to reverse the international tide of crime and the world, organized crime robs people of billions of dollars every year and undermines trust in knows all about the devastation and despair that drugs can bring to schools and bord