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As for the princelings, their greed is surely not incomparable to that of the investment bankers and hedge fund managers who brought the world economy to the brink in 2007-2008. More importantly, they are an absolutely tiny fraction of China's billion person population. Inequality in China is worse even than in much richer America, and the average annual income for a Chinese family remains only U.S. $2100 a year, barely a fifth of the global average. It is the height of absurdity to brand China a country of princelings while most people still struggle to make ends meet.

对于那些官二代来说，他们的贪婪跟那些在2007-08把世界经济拖入深渊的投资银行家以及对冲基金经理比起来，完全算不上贪婪。值得指出的是，跟中国亿万百姓比起来，他们只是九牛一毛。同时，中国的贫富差距较之美国更甚。中国家庭的平均年收入是2100美元， 是世界平均水平的五分之一。因此，当绝大部分中国人还在艰难度日的时候，认为官二代能代表中国是荒谬绝伦的。

Now that China's economic growth has begun to slow markedly, the narrative seems on the cusp of changing yet again. Already one hears arguments detailing how China is destined to fail because it is not a democracy and how this top-down style of doing business has made it an economy of copycats and rote-learners devoid of innovation. "Designed in California, Made in China" is already an accepted formulation in the West. Just last March Harvard Business Review published a piece titled 'Why China Can't Innovate.'

现在中国的经济发展正在经历一个历史性的降速。西方世界（对中国）的论调也开始变化。西方世界已经有人喊出中国注定会崩溃，因为它不民主，它那种自上而下的经营风格让其经济忽视创新，只会剽窃和盲目模仿。“加州设计，中国制造”已经是西方社会认可的一种方式。去年三月哈佛商业评论就发表一篇名为《为什么中国不能创新》的文章。

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Yet since the new millennium, the number of Chinese graduating from university has risen a staggering 7 fold. (1 million in 1999 compared to almost 7 in 2013).

然而自新世纪以来，中国的大学毕业生人数已经增长了令人瞠目结舌的7倍（1999年的一百万到2013年七百万）。

Foreign Policy reports the United States' National Science Board as concluding that "The center of high-tech gravity is shifting to Asia, and to China in particular."

《外交政策》报道，美国国家科学委员会指出：高端科技的重心已经由美国转移到亚洲，尤其是转移到中国。”

And when it comes to low-tech, China has an unparalleled civilization on which to draw from. As Professor Wen Tiejun of Renmin University's Institute of Advanced Studies for Sustainability notes, China's 240 million small household farmers represent rural communities "rich with indigenous knowledge." Their practices represent not just ancient tradition but a potential solution to "protecting the environment and providing for sustainable livelihoods."

至于低端科技， 中国可以从其无语伦比的文化上汲取。正如来自人民大学可持续发展高级研究院的温铁军教授说的那样， 中国两亿四千万的小农家庭正是中国农村“丰富的本土化知识”的体现。他们的实践不仅仅代表了古代以及传统的智慧， 也为“保护环境以及可持续营生”提供了潜在的解决方法。

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China is a large nation with much that can be said truthfully about it. It is both crude and refined, rich and poor, crowded and desolate. It is both one of the most dynamic economies in the world and, as its own leaders well know, a country facing serious challenges to do with resource constraints, environmental degradation and a massive and rapidly aging population. But one thing that cannot be seriously asserted about a country of 1.35 billion people is that it has no culture. That is not the case, nor has it ever been or will it ever be, and it does not help crucial international relationships to project these kinds of distorted images.

中国是一个大国，它的很多方面都有人质疑。它很粗糙也很精细，它很富裕也很贫穷，它人很多也很荒凉。它是世界上最为活跃的经济体之一，也是一个，正如它的领导人了然于心的， 面临着资源枯竭，环境恶化，急剧老龄化等诸多挑战的国家。但是有一点是绝对不能混淆的，那就是一个有着十三亿五千万人民的大国怎么可能会没有文化？这种情形以前，现在，将来都不可能会发生。 抱着这样一种扭曲的思想去看中国，对当今重要国际关系是毫无益处的。

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