ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, i am chinese. i am proud of being a chinese with five thousand years of
civilization behind. ive learned about the four great inventions made by our
forefathers. ive learned about the great wall and the yangtze river. ive learned about
zhang heng(张衡)and ive learned about zheng he(郑和).who says the yellow river
civilization has vanished(消失)?i know that my ancestors have made miracles(奇迹)on
this fertile land and were still making miracles. who can ignore the fact that we
have established ourselves as a great state in the world, that we have devised our
own nuclear weapons, that we have successfully sent our satellites into space, and
that our gnp ranks no. 7 in the world? we have experienced the plunders (掠夺) by
other nations, and we have experienced the war. yet, based on such ruins, there still
stands our nation----china, unyielding and unconquerable!