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Finally, we need to pursue strategies for achieving not just growth, but sustainable, inclusive growth. Now, it is a maxim of mine that foreign policy must deliver results for people. Because ultimately, our progress will not be measured by profit margins or GDP, but by the quality of people’s lives — whether men and women can work in dignity, earn a decent wage, raise healthy families, educate their children, and take hold of the opportunities to improve their own and the next generation's futures.
最后，我们制定的战略不仅要实现增长，而且要实现可持续的包容性增长。我遵循的一个座右铭是：我们的外交政策必须给人民带来实惠，因为我们取得的进步最终不是用利润率或国内生产总值来衡量，而是要用人民的生活质量来评估——要看全体公民能否在有尊严的情况下工作和赚取体面的工资收入，以及是否有能力赡养家庭和保持家人健康、教育子女，并且享有各种改善自身状况和下一代未来的机会。
The United States supports a number of endeavors to promote inclusive growth in the region. Our Millennium Challenge Corporation, for example, makes large-scale investments in partner countries to reduce poverty through growth. We have a compact with the Philippines to invest in roads, community development projects, and more effective tax collection. We are negotiating a compact with Indonesia to promote low carbon development, and we began a threshold partnership with Timor-Leste earlier this year to fight corruption and improve children's health.
美国支持为促进这个地区取得包容性增长而作出的多项努力。例如，我们的“世纪挑战账户集团”在伙伴国家进行大规模投资以便通过增长来减少贫困。我们与菲律宾签署了一项投资于道路、社区发展项目和征税效率的协议。我们正在与印度尼西亚谈判一项旨在促进低碳发展的协议。今年早些时候我们开始与东帝汶建立达标伙伴关系，以便打击腐败，改善儿童的健康。
Across the region, we are partnering with governments to encourage and help them uphold their commitments to inclusive growth by practicing good governance, providing public goods like health and education, and creating tax systems that improve revenue collection and ensure that everyone pays their fair share. We are supporting civil society and citizens alike in holding governments accountable, supplying job training and networking, and being a strong voice for bringing opportunity to places where it is scarce.
在整个地区，我们正在与各国政府结成伙伴关系，鼓励并帮助它们通过实行良治，提供卫生保健和教育等公益服务以及建立改进税收、确保每个人都公平纳税的税制，来坚持其对包容性经济增长的承诺。我们支持公民社会和公民个人对政府实行问责的要求，提供就业培训和联网，坚决呼吁在缺乏机会的地方创造机会。
And we are working very closely with the private sector. Two years ago, I created a Global Partnership Initiative to support a new generation of public-private partnerships focused on everything from protecting and developing the Lower Mekong region to helping more families gain access to clean cookstoves, to protect them from the harmful smoke that kills two million people worldwide every year, and puts black soot carbon into the atmosphere.
我们正在与民间部门密切合作。两年前，我发起了一项全球伙伴计划，支持新一代的政府与民间的合作，侧重于多个项目，从保护和发展湄公河下游地区到帮助更多的家庭获得清洁炉灶，让他们远离向大气层释放黑色烟尘并每年导致全世界200万人死亡的有害烟雾。
We also launched the Global Entrepreneurship Program, to identify promising entrepreneurs, training them, linking them with mentors and potential investors, advocating for supportive policies and regulations, helping spread best practices. And we are supporting initiatives like Partners for a New Beginning, which supports economic opportunity, education, science and technology exchanges between the United States and Muslim communities worldwide, and we just opened a chapter in Indonesia.
我们还发起了全球创业计划，以选拔大有希望的企业家，对他们进行培训，为他们寻找导师和可能的投资者，倡导扶持性的政策和法规，帮助普及最佳实务。我们正在支持“新开端伙伴”计划，提供经济机会并支持美国与世界各地穆斯林社区之间的教育、科学和技术交流；而且我们还刚刚在印度尼西亚开启了这项计划的一个分支。
We are connecting entrepreneurs with Diaspora communities in the United States that are eager to help fund new projects in countries where they have family ties. And we are looking to the private sector to help us. There are so many ways that we are grateful to the private sector. After all, it drives what we are talking about today. But we do need to try to consider, even within the constraints of modern financial practices and expectations, not just short-term benefits but long-term consequences. The work that each of you do in your businesses can help lift people’s lives, promote human rights and dignity, and create new markets, creating a virtuous cycle. Or it can further ensnare people in poverty and environmental degradations, creating a vicious cycle.
我们正在帮助创业者同美国各地的移民社区取得联系，他们热切希望资助与他们有着家庭纽带的国家的新项目。我们正在寻求民间部门提供帮助。在很多方面我们感激民间部门的帮助。毕竟，正是民间部门推动着我们今天所谈论的议题。但是，即使是在现代金融规范和预期的制约范围内，我们也确实应当努力考虑到长期的结果，而不仅仅是短期的利益。各位在你们的企业里所做的工作能够帮助改善人民的生活，促进人权与尊严，打开新市场，从而创造出一种良性循环。反之则可能使人民进一步陷入贫困和日益恶化的环境中，从而导致一种恶性循环。
So that’s our agenda, and you can see why I’ve come to Hong Kong to talk about it, because here, we have a perfect example of what can be done and how important it is to lead in the economic realm with the kind of principles that Hong Kong has developed on. Now, we know very well that the future is arriving at a breathtaking pace, and the choices we make today will define what is possible economically for so many millions of people.
这便是我们的议程，而你们应当知道我为什么要到香港来谈论这项议程——因为香港是一个最好的例子，能说明依靠香港发展所遵循的原则可取得的成就以及以此在经济领域发挥带头作用的重要意义。我们现在非常清楚，未来正在以惊人的速度展现在我们面前，我们今天所作的选择将决定亿万人民在经济上可能取得的成就。
And so while the specifics are forever changing, many of the ideals that guided us in the 20th century are the same ones we need to embrace in the 21st — a belief that a good idea is a good idea no matter where it comes from or from whom, a willingness to embrace change, a culture driven by marriage, faith in the notion that a rising tide of economic growth and innovation can improve everyone’s quality of life whether they live in Hong Kong or Appalachia. It is up to us to translate those enduring principles into common practice, shared prosperity, the opportunity for as many people as possible on both sides of the Pacific to live up to their God-given potential.
因此，尽管具体情形不同，但是引领我们走过20世纪的许多理念依然是我们在21世纪所需要的——相信好主意就是好主意，无论出自哪里或由谁提出；愿意接受变革；以婚姻为文化的驱动力；坚信高涨的经济增长势头与革新能够提高所有人的生活质量，无论他们生活在香港还是阿巴拉契亚。将这些永恒的原则转化为通行的做法和共同的繁荣，以及让太平洋两岸尽可能多的人民实现天赐潜能的机会，这还要取决于我们的努力。
