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April 18, 2009,? Can be said to be the busiest day.

After the opening ceremony at 10:00 in the morning, Andy and many guests participated in the reception luncheon held by the local government in the banquet hall of Dongyu Island. On the VIP chairman table, the people who can sit next to Andy and Xiao Feixie are big figures with heads and faces. . . . .

After the sumptuous luncheon at noon, Andy was invited to participate in two theme forums non-stop. In the evening, Xiaofei Shoes will hold a sumptuous dinner at the main venue on the second floor and deliver his speech.

Compared with the welcome luncheon at noon, this dinner is more sumptuous and luxurious, and there are many big people everywhere.

Before the dinner began, Xiaofei Shoes delivered a personal speech. Although it has been a while since he left office, the appearance of Xiao Feixie at the theme dinner still caused quite a commotion.

Everyone took out their cameras and mobile phones to take pictures of Xiao Feixie who entered the venue with a smile on his face, just like an entertainment star. Like many occasions in the past, Xiaofei Shoes had a relaxed expression. Before entering the topic of the speech, he used a lot of space to tell the participants about his growth experience, which attracted bursts of laughter from the audience. In his speech, Xiao Fei Xie still showed the humorous side unique to Americans. For example, when talking about his successor, Ao Guanhai, he said, "There are already many critics of him, so I won't criticize him." It is implicit and meaningful .

A dinner speech made Xiaofei Shoes show a different personal charm and became the hottest star on the forum. Naturally, the young richest man in the world, Andy Smith, was as hot as Xiaofei Shoes in Boao.

On the morning before the closing of the forum on the 19th, in Andy's sub-forum on "Understanding the Rise of the East", the venue with more than 500 seats was full.

Moreover, almost all of the people sitting in the front row of the venue are Chinese and foreign dignitaries, even the hosts with very familiar faces. This is very different from the closing situation of the previous Boao Forum. Participants will leave one after another, making the closing ceremony of the forum somewhat deserted, but this year's forum organizing committee bosses sitting in the front row don't have to worry, and the smiles on their faces are getting brighter and brighter.

As soon as Andy in a slim suit appeared in the venue, there was applause in the venue. With a bright smile on his face, Andy walked up to the rostrum calmly and stood still in front of the big screen playing the theme of the speech , Wei Wei bowed to everyone in the audience, thanking everyone for their applause.

"Thank you, thank you all for coming..."

Before getting into the topic of the speech, Andy routinely gave an inoffensive 'flattery' as a foreshadowing.

"The world is changing at an alarming rate. This financial crisis affects the whole world. No country can deal with it alone, and the United States is the same. Therefore, international cooperation is needed to tide over the difficulties together.

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I must especially emphasize the role of China in dealing with the global financial crisis. It can be said that the G7 and G8 are no longer "very significant representative" because, in today's world, the absence of China's negotiations is meaningless." .

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There was a burst of warm applause at the scene, and the big man sitting in the front row of the audience was also smiling and whispering to the smiling Xiao Feixie next to him, clapping his hands, he already knew that the young richest man in the world on the stage was a Chinese man Tong, also an important figure in the category of 'friends' of the Celestial Dynasty.

When the applause subsided, Andy walked back and forth on the stage with a smile, and continued: "In the past 30 years, the changes in China have been "remarkable". The center of the world economy has "shifted from the Atlantic Ocean to the Asia-Pacific region." , The rapid economic development of China and other Asian countries has attracted worldwide attention. This is also the origin of the topic of my speech today, "East".

I would like to ask all of you here a question, what do you think of the Celestial Dynasty? "

As soon as this question came out, many people pondered for a while, but Andy naturally wouldn't ask people to get up to answer this question, but smiled and said to himself: "Some people will say that it is a country with a long history. ...China is very poor, but it seems to be developing very fast recently. Some people may say that China’s food is unique. Others will say that China is a rising power.”

Then, Andy pressed the remote control in his hand, and several charts appeared on the big screen behind him. Andy pointed to the big screen sideways and said: "If you look carefully at the charts above, you will find that in 2025, these Goldman Sachs forecasts report that the Chinese economy will catch up to the US economy, and if you look at the chart below for 2050, it predicts that the Chinese economy will be twice the size of the US economy, while the Indian economy will be on par with the US economy.

At this point we should be clear that these charts were drawn before the financial crisis, but I saw in the research report sent to me by my think tank, when China will become a larger economy than the United States, the time given by Goldman Sachs It's 2027, but reports from the think tank suggest it is. . . 2020! "

Speaking of Andy pointed to the 2020 numbers on the big screen, the venue had become silent at this time, everyone looked at Andy on the stage with burning eyes, listening carefully to his every word, those Chinese and foreign dignitaries Their faces are even more serious.

"In 2020, only 11 years from now, the Celestial Dynasty will change and influence the world from two aspects.

First, China is a developing country with a vast territory and a population of 1.3 billion. It has been growing at an annual rate of about 10% for 30 years, and it will become the largest economy in 11 years. Never before in modern times has a developing country had a larger economy than a developed country.

Second, in modern times, the dominant country in the world, in my opinion, will be the Celestial Dynasty, and will not be a certain Western country. . . "

Speaking of this, there was some slight commotion at the scene, and Andy opened his arms to give a slight signal, and continued: "I know that there is a common view in the West that countries are constantly modernizing and Westernizing, but this is not the case.

There is an idea that modernity is a general product of markets, competition and technology, but it is not only that, it is also shaped by history and culture.

The Celestial Dynasty is not like the Western countries, and it will not develop like the Western countries. It will maintain differences in the most basic aspects. Obviously, the key question now is, if we understand the Celestial Empire, how should we understand the essence of the Celestial Empire? It is said that the current Western countries are still using the traditional method to understand the celestial dynasty, using our western thinking and concepts to look at the celestial dynasty. This will not work, thinking that the celestial dynasty is different! "

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There was a low hum in the venue, and people began to whisper to each other. The audience at the scene was undoubtedly not elites from all walks of life. Whether they were dignified Chinese people or foreign faces with serious brows, they were all shocked by Andy's series of words. It was difficult to calm down, and the reporters at the scene were all flushed and frantically taking pictures, recording this speech that was bound to set off turbulent waves around the world.

"...Anyone who knows a little about the Celestial Dynasty knows that the Celestial Dynasty has a long history. From 221 BC, after the end of the Warring States Period, to the unification of the six countries by the Qin Dynasty, and now, it has always been a country with uninterrupted civilization. Perhaps it is The decline of China in the past hundred years has made Westerners deliberately ignore the glory of China's history. This is a wrong way of thinking, and it will not work to understand China with this kind of thinking..."

Then, while the audience was silent and attentively listening, Andy calmly began to analyze and explain from all aspects, and popularized the history and civilization of the Chinese Dynasty in the most easy-to-understand language for Westerners.

"... Generally speaking, the Western world insists on its own opinion, thinking that only by applying the experience of the Western world and using Western perspectives, Western thinking can understand the Celestial Dynasty. If you want to know, why do we have such a big opinion on the Celestial Dynasty Wrong, why we made a mistake in predicting the future of the Celestial Dynasty, the above is the answer!"

Wow——

The entire venue was suddenly in an uproar. The bigwigs sitting in the front row looked at the eloquent Andy Smith with extremely bright eyes, and their faces were sinking like water, making it impossible to see their mood at this moment.

"Unfortunately, I have to say that the view of the Celestial Dynasty, with a little bit of Western thinking, is a bit arrogant and conceited, thinking that we are the best, so you think that Western thinking and policies are universal?

Second, there is ignorance, our refusal to face up to the question of difference. . . . . . "