美國商務部長在暨南大學的演講

2009年10月27日，美國商務部長駱家輝在廣州暨南大學發表演講，全文如下：

Remarks at Jinan University, Guangzhou by U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Thank you. Good afternoon everyone. It is an honor to be with you at Jinan University. I have been looking forward to this visit to southern China for some time. My roots are here. The ancestral home of my family, a village called Jilong, where my mother and father were married, is located here in Guangdong Province. My brother and sisters and I, and our spouses, were delighted to join my parents when they returned for a visit a few years ago. It was the trip of a lifetime for all of us.
謝謝！大家下午好。今天來暨南大學和大家見面，我感到很榮幸。我一直期待着對華南的這次訪問。因爲我的根就在這裏。我的祖籍，也是我父母結婚的地方，就在廣東一個名叫吉龍的村子。幾年前，我和我弟弟、姐妹以及我們各自的配偶，曾隨父母回來尋根問祖。那次返鄉之旅讓我們都終生難忘。

Let me begin this afternoon by congratulating each of you for your acceptance at one of China’s premier universities. Jinan has produced countless government, business, and academic leaders throughout its history – and is recognized as one of the leading research universities in China. You are here at Jinan at a time in Chinese and world history that is at the same time frightening and exciting.
今天下午，讓我首先祝賀各位入讀作爲中國著名大學之一的暨南大學。多年來，暨大培養出無數的政治、商業和學術領袖，也是公認的中國領先的研究型大學之一。你們來到暨大的時間，恰逢中國和世界歷史上一個既可怕又令人振奮的時代。

On top of a struggling global economy, our world has more serious issues to deal with than we'd all care to count. Climate change, poverty, disease, terrorism -- each issue on its own is enough to consume all of our time. But we've got to deal with them all at once. It's enough to make anyone despair for the future. But not me.
除了掙扎中的全球經濟外，我們還必須應對諸多更爲嚴峻的問題。氣候變化、貧窮、疾病、恐怖主義，等等，每個問題都足以耗盡我們所有的時間。而我們還必須同時應對所有這些問題。這足以讓任何人都對未來感到絕望。但我不會。

I'm optimistic and confident the world is equipped to deal with the challenges we face -- and a big part of the reason is seeing young people like you. Because although these problems are daunting, they do have solutions. Many of them can be solved with the science, math and engineering skills that you learn here every day. With your talent, your creativity and your ingenuity, you have the power to make a real difference, and I hope you will seize that opportunity. But your skills alone are not enough. That's only half the equation.
我認爲這個世界有能力解決我們所面臨的這些挑戰。我對此感到樂觀和充滿信心的一個重要原因，就是看到有你們這樣的年輕人。因爲，儘管這些問題令人生畏，但還是有解決辦法的。其中許多可以通過你們在這裏每天學習的科學、數學及工程技能來解決。憑藉你們的聰明才智，你們有能力爲解決這些問題作出切實貢獻，希望大家能把握住這個機會。但僅靠知識技能是不夠的，那只是具備了一半的條件。

To spur the new technologies China needs to grow its economy and help solve the world's problems, China must also have a system of laws and a regulatory infrastructure that rewards and protects those who take risks to develop new innovations; and it must vigorously enforce those laws and regulations. And your school, Jinan University, has taken a huge step to empower innovators like you for decades to n has established a College of Intellectual Property, the first of its kind in Guangdong Province.
中國要發展自己的經濟並幫助解決整個世界所面臨的問題，必須刺激新科技的發展。爲此，中國必須要有一整套法律法規體系來獎勵並保護那些冒着風險開發新創意的人，而且，這些法律法規必須得到強有力的執行。只有這樣，才能在未來幾十年裏爲象你們這樣的創新者提供激勵。在這方面，你們暨南大學，通過成立廣東省首個知識產權學院，已經邁出了一大步。

Earlier today, I participated in the “Pearl River Delta International Forum on Innovation and Intellectual Property.” And just now, I had the opportunity to meet with some of the students from your College of IP. As I told the Vice Dean, the fact that an entire school is devoted to the study of intellectual property and its protection indicates the impressive progress China has made in the area.
今天早上，我出席了“珠三角創新與知識產權國際論壇”。而就在剛纔，我還與你們知識產權學院的一些學生見了面。正象我對副校長所說的那樣，有你們這樣專門講授和研究知識產權及其保護的學院，這個事實本身就體現了中國在這方面取得的巨大進步。As China’s economy evolves from an export-driven model to one focusing on high-tech and high-value innovation and domestic consumption, intellectual property rights will become paramount. I know that building an effective patent and trademark system is not easy -- because over 200 years after its founding, the United States is still working to perfect its own.
隨着中國經濟從出口推動型逐步轉變爲依靠高科技、高附加值創新及國內消費，知識產權將變得極端重要。我知道，建設一套行之有效的專利商標體系並不容易，因爲在建國200多年後的今天，美國仍在努力完善自己的專利商標體系。

Only a few years after the American Revolution, our third president Thomas Jefferson helped create the U.S. patent office because he understood two fundamental truths. He knew:
That long term economic growth was dependent on a continuous flow of new technologies and new ideas entering the marketplace;
But he also knew that without a promise of ownership protection for these ideas, innovators would never be willing to take risks to improve upon the status quo.
Although the United States continues efforts to reform our own patent system to reflect the rapid changes in the global economy, the necessity of having robust patent and trademark protections is not a matter of serious debate.
在美國獨立戰爭之後不久，我們的第三任總統，托馬斯?傑斐遜，就幫助創立了美國專利局，因爲他充分理解兩個基本事實。他知道：
長期的經濟增長有賴於新科技和新創意不斷流入市場；
他也知道，如果缺乏爲這些創意提供所有權保護的承諾，創新人才就不願冒着風險來改進現狀。
儘管美國仍在繼續努力，根據全球經濟的不斷變化來改革我們自己的專利體系，但爲專利和商標提供穩健保護的必要性是毋庸置疑的。

And when I come to a place like Jinan University, it makes me believe that sentiment is starting to take deeper root in China. Soon enough, many of you will be entering the workforce. Perhaps you will find work here in Guangdong, which is one of the most economically vibrant areas in all of China. It’s home to over 100,000 businesses, billions of dollars of foreign direct investment and has the highest number of patent filings and trademark registrations in China. Or perhaps you will find work in another part of China, or even in the United States or another country. But whether you make your mark here in Guandong or in California's Silicon Valley, you will soon see the value in the protection of ideas.
在我來到暨南大學這樣的地方後，我瞭解到的情況讓我確信，這種共識正開始在中國紮下根來。很快，你們許多人都將進入就業市場。也許你會在廣東這裏找到工作。作爲中國經濟最有活力的地區之一，廣東擁有十幾萬家企業，成百上千億美元的外商直接投資，以及中國數目最多的專利申請和商標登記。或者你會在中國其它地方，或者甚至在美國或其它國家找到工作。但無論你是在廣東還是在加州的硅谷功成名就，你都將很快意識到爲創意提供保護的價值。

Consider for a moment, the path of one of America's most famous innovators, Bill Gates.
When Bill Gates quit college to begin his path towards starting Microsoft, he had no guarantee of success. On numerous occasions, he faced failures and disappointments. But he kept moving forward, because he hoped that someday, all the money he invested and all the hours he labored just might result in the creation of something special that he could call his own. And because Bill Gates received IP protection for his ideas, millions of people around the world have benefited. Somewhere in the world, perhaps somewhere in this room, is the Bill Gates of clean energy, or the Bill Gates of medical research -- and we need to make sure whoever that person is has similar protection.
讓我們來想想美國最著名的創新者之一比爾?蓋茨走過的道路吧。當比爾?蓋茨從大學退學，踏上創辦微軟的道路時，沒人保證他會取得成功。他遇到過數不清的失敗和挫折。但他沒有放棄，因爲他希望有朝一日，他投入的所有金錢、時間和精力，可以產生出讓他感到自豪的發明創造。而正是由於比爾?蓋茨的創意受到知識產權的保護，今天世界各地成千上萬人因此而獲益非淺。現在世界上的某個地方，也許就在我們這個房間裏，就坐着清潔能源領域的比爾?蓋茨，或者醫學研究領域的比爾?蓋茨。我們必須確保，無論這個人是誰，他都將得到類似的保護。

Despite the impressive progress that China has made protecting intellectual property, much more still needs to be done. American and other foreign companies in industries ranging from pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to entertainment still lose billions of dollars from counterfeiting and IP theft in China every year.
儘管中國在保護知識產權方面已經取得巨大進步，但要做的事情還很多。在從製藥、生物科技到娛樂業等諸多行業中，在中國的美國及其它外國公司仍然因爲仿冒及知識產權盜用而每年損失數以十億美元計的收入。

Stronger intellectual property laws have been written – but they are only as valuable as the civil and criminal penalties people face for breaking them – and China’s enforcement of IP laws is often uneven.
中國已經制定了更有力的知識產權法律，但是這種法律的價值只有通過違反該法律的人所面臨的民事或刑事懲罰才能得到體現。而在中國，知識產權法律的執法道路並不平坦。

I do hope that places like Jinan will continue to be a positive influence to convince more of China's people of the critical importance of protecting ideas and intellectual property. And I hope all of you today, will be ambassadors for that message among your family, friends and colleagues.
我很希望象暨大這樣的機構能繼續發揮積極影響，讓中國更多人認識到保護創意和知識產權的極端重要性。並且，我希望在座各位都能在自己的家人、朋友和同事中間擔當起知識產權大使的角色。

I applaud Jinan University for making intellectual property rights and protection a strategic part of the curriculum, and wish each of you much success in your academic careers and future endeavors.
對於暨南大學把知識產權及其保護作爲貴校課程中的重要組成部分，我非常讚賞，並希望各位在自己的學術生涯及未來發展中取得成功。

As leaders, innovators and consumers, you will write the next chapter in China’s rich history. You have an enormous amount of responsibility riding on your shoulders because your success isn't just important to you and your family -- it's important to me and everyone else who cares about solving the world’s problems.
作爲領袖、創新者和消費者，你們將爲中國豐富的歷史撰寫新的篇章。你們肩負重任，因爲你們的成功不光對你們自己和你們的家人很重要，而且對於我、以及對解決世界所面臨的各種問題感到關切的每個人都很重要。

I hope you make the most of your time at Jinan.
希望大家充分利用在暨大學習和工作的時間。

Thank you for having me here today.
謝謝大家！