州长： I think it’s a good opportunity. It’s a way to build relations. I always tell people…people always underestimate, it’s hard to do business in another country, just anywhere. I’m an old business person, I’ve actually done that. And if you can create an environment to facilitate that to make you feel welcomed, to say here’s ways you can do it faster, better, easier, that encourages more of this work to get done, which I think is again a very much positive…because I view this as about long term relationships. 

我认为这是一次很好的机遇。这是一个很好的构建关系的方式。我总是告诉他人，人们却总是低估这一点。在另一个国家做生意很难，无论在哪儿。我是一个传统商人，而我确实在这点上做成功了。如果你可以构建一个环境并且使得自己能够被欢迎，那么由此你可以做得更快、更好、更轻松，拓展更多的业务，这是非常积极的方式，并且我着眼于构建长期合作关系。

主持人： So Governor, what is your hope then for the China-US economic relationship going forward? How do the two countries manage their differences but also grow mutually as well?

您希望中美经济关系将如何发展？两国如何能最好地管理分歧并努力实现共同发展？

州长： Michigan is a great illustration of that. Michigan didn’t have much of a relationship with China until I became Governor. Now after eight years, we’re actually number three in terms of the rank state for the number of jobs created by foreign direct investment from China over the last several years. That’s huge in terms of helping our economy grow. Isn’t that the kind of message we want to reinforce with people? And we build great relationships with in particular with some parts of China where we have sister state relationships that I think we have more and more opportunity.  

密歇根州本身可以成为一个例证。在我成为州长之前，密歇根并没有与中国有太多的往来。如今，八年以后，就来自中国的直接投资创造的就业岗位数量而言，我们是全美排名第三的州。这对于帮助我们的经济发展而言意义重大。这不正是我们想要给人们传递和强调的讯息吗？在中国，特别是一些与我们建立姐妹城市关系的地方，我们将有越来越多的合作机会。

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