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2011
年
9
月 第
5
期
E
leven years ago, it had never
occurred to me that my
life would be connected
with China one day. I had
never ever thought of being
able to speak Chinese and becoming
the chief executive officer of the Aus-
tralia China Business Council. With
my understanding of China’s politics,
culture and society, I assumed the post
and have been engaged in promoting
Australia-China business exchanges
and cooperation.
As a sophomore, I participated in
the “Chinese Bridge” Chinese Profi-
ciency Competition for Foreign Col-
lege students in 2006. I won the cham-
pionship in the Australian competition
area. Then I went to Beijing for the
final competition, where I met other
competitors from all over the world. In
11
年以前
,
我从来没有想过自己的生
活有一天会与中国相连
,
我更没有想过自
己有朝一日能讲一口普通话
,
并凭着对中
国政治
、
文化和社会的了解
,
成为澳大利
亚中国工商业委员会的首席执行官
,
从事
促进澳中商界交流合作的事务
。
2006
年
,
上大学二年级的我参加了
“
汉
语桥
”
世界大学生中文比赛并夺得了澳洲
赛区的总冠军
。
后来我又到北京参加总
决赛
,
并且认识了来自全球各地的选手
。
2007
到
2008
年
,
我以国际交换学生的身
份被新南威尔士大学选送到清华大学学习
一年
,
这让我的中文水平得到了飞速提高
。
一直到现在我都觉得
,
如果当年没有参加
“
汉语桥
”
比赛
,
可能就没有今天的我
。
我现在的工作与中国有密切的关系
。
在两国日益频繁的商务交往中
,
我看到
了双方市场相互依存
、
共谋发展的积极
趋势与令人欣慰的成果
。
但同时我也看
到澳洲企业普遍存在着对中国了解程度
偏低的现象
,
他们对中国市场的了解还
停留在表层
。
澳洲的商业人士在主流媒
体的影响下都知道
“
中国热
”
现象
,
也
有开拓中国业务的意愿
,
但他们常常把
整个中国看做一个大的市场
,
并不知道
中国其实是由很多单独的市场组成
,
各
个省市地区都有各自的优势和特点
。
中
国的宏观政策看似统一
,
其实各个地区
的实施策略与优惠政策不尽相同
。
依我看来
,
中国是世界上最有特色的
市场
:
人口多
、
历史长
、
语言多
、
文化复
杂
,
经济发展情况也参差不齐
。
北京与上
海不一样
,
中国的东部与西部不一样
,
沿
海与内地不一样
。
我常常告诉澳洲的商人
,
这些特点不是在各种统计数字和各方媒体
的报道中能体会到的
。
如果对中国感兴趣
,
必须亲自到中国去一趟
,
先了解清楚当地
的历史
、
文化
、
政治背景和发展趋势后再
作出决定
。
我认为自己是幸运的
。
我对中国源远
流长的历史文化爱得深沉
,
而中国的迅速
崛起也回馈给我一片充满机遇的沃土
。
中
澳两国日益密切的商务往来促使澳大利亚
用比以往任何时候都要包容的姿态迎接来
自东方的财富
,
但对我而言
,
能在东西方
文化碰撞交融的浪潮中开拓一番天地
,
夫
复何求
?
2007, I was chosen to be an exchange
student by the University of New South
Wales to study at China’s Tsinghua
University for the 2007-2008 academic
year. That one-year study in China
greatly helped improve my Chinese
skills. I am sure I would not be what I
am now if I had not participated in the
“Chinese Bridge” competition.
What I am doing now is closely
connected with China. From the in-
creasingly frequent business contacts
between the two countries, I have seen
satisfying results and the positive trend
that the two countries’ markets depend
on each other and seek common de-
velopment together. In the meantime,
however, the Australian companies’
understanding of China is still very
limited and superficial. Under the in-
f luence of the mainstream media, the
Australian businessmen are aware of
“Sinomania” and willing to develop
the Chinese market. But they regard
the Chinese market as one big market,
without knowing it is made up of many
individual markets. Different provinces,
cities and regions in China have their
own unique advantages and character-
istics. Despite the centralized macro-
economic policies, the local govern-
ments have their own implementation
methods and preferential policies.
In my opinion, China ha s the
world’s most characteristic market: large
population, long history, multi-dialects,
complex cultures and uneven economic
development. Beijing is different from
Shanghai, the East different from the
West and the costal areas different from
ἷ༌ܸѾ̎Ἰ
Pearcey Laurie James (Australia)
多层面的中国
Multi-Faceted China
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