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se, it is difficult to make sense of present and future events in China. 范文二: As the song goes amp。m sure that all of you have seen with your own eyes the constant and unceasing transformation of Shanghai. The growth of Shanghai is one reflection of the enormous changes taking place in China. In the first 50 years of the 20th century, the Chinese people made unflagging efforts to change the tragic fate that had been theirs ever since the Opium War. After arduous and valiant struggle, they finally ended their semicolonial and semifeudal history, won independence for the nation and freedom for the people, and founded the Peopleamp。s biggest city. Iamp。s Pudong area, where we are gathered this evening, there were only rundown houses and farms. Now it is a vibrant modern financial and businezone, full of highrise buildings. Over fifty years ago, I was in Shanghai attending univ