【正文】 ouples will have to support four parents who have a life expectancy of 73 years making a living is not that easy for young graduates are not in short urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about 400 a month, while the average rent is above $ what do they do? They have to share spacesqueezed in very limited space to save moneyand 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 ratio in America would only cost a couple five years to earn, but in China it39。we39。s a movie star, and she has more than million followers, or 80 percent of those microbloggers are young people, under 30 years 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 because you don39。t buy is still shows us a general mistrust of government or governmentbacked institutions, which lacked transparency in the also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as boomed in the year of 2010, with visitors doubled and time spent on it , a major news portal, alone has more than 140 million Tencent, 200 most popular bloggerit39。t realize that she stepped on a sensitive nerve and aroused national questioning, almost a turmoil, against the credibility of Red controversy was so heated that the Red Cross had to open a press conference to clarify it, and the investigation is going far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that titleprobably because she feels proud to be associated with 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 39。m thinking, what are today39。ve interviewed more than a thousand people in the sometimes I have young people approaching me say, “Lan, you changed my life,” and I feel proud of then we are also so fortunate to witness the transformation of the whole was in Beijing39。s personalities on television always have to be beautiful, sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? Why can39。s still 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 didn39。s not like “hello” or “thank you,” that ordinary means “green onion for free.” Why did she say that? Because it was a line from our Chinese parallel Susan Boylea 50some yearold woman, a vegetable vendor in Shanghai, who loves singing Western opera, but she didn39。s Got Talent” show in Shanghai with the 80,000 live audiences in the who was the performing guest? Susan I told her, “I39。第一篇：楊瀾TED演講演講楊瀾楊瀾楊瀾楊瀾TED演講演講演講演講：：：：重塑中國的年輕一代重塑中國的年輕一代重塑中國的年輕一代重塑中國的年輕一代（（（（英文演講稿英文演講稿英文演講稿英文演講稿））））Yang Lan: The generation that39。s remaking ChinaThe night before I was heading for Scotland, I was invited to host the final of “China39。m going to Scotland the next day.” She sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in Chinese.[Chinese]So it39。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 audiences sang was I guess both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to were the least expected to be successful in the business called entertainment, yet their courage and talent brought them a show and a platform gave them the stage to realize their , being different is not that are all different from different I think being different is good, because you present a different point of may have the chance to make a 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 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 fivestar hotel in Beijing, Great Wall Sheratonit39。t have a clue what a sales department was about in a fivestar was the first day I set my foot in a fivestar the same time, I was going through an auditionthe first ever open audition by national television in Chinawith another thousand college producer told us they were looking for some sweet, innocent and beautiful fresh when it was my turn, I stood up and said, “Why [do] women39。t they have their own ideas and their own voice?” I thought I kind of offended actually, they were impressed by my so I was in the second round of petition, and then the third and the seven rounds of petition, I was the last one to survive I was on a national television primetime 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 after a few years, I decided to go to the Columbia University to pursue mypostgraduate studies, and then started my own media pany, which was unthought of during the years that I started my we do a lot of 39。s bidding for the Olympic was representing the Shanghai saw China embracing the world and vice then sometimes I39。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 of all, who are they? [What] do they look like? Well this is a girl called Guo Meimei20 years old, showed off her expensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog, which is the Chinese version of she claimed to be the general manager of Red Cross at the Chamber of didn39。s ve