实行改革开放以来，中国进入了发展最快，进步最大、变化最深刻的历史时期。 1979年至2003年，中国经济年均增长9.4%，居民消费水平年均提高7%，进出口总额年均增长16%，成为世界上发展最快的国家之一。2003年，拥有13亿人口的中国，人均国内生产总值第一次超过了1000美元，人民生活总体上达到了小康水平。//
从2003年下半年开始，中国政府针对经济运行中的突出矛盾和问题，果断采取了一系列宏观调控政策措施，在较短的时间内取得阶段性成效，经济运行中的一些不健康不稳定因素得到抑制，国民经济继续保持平稳较快发展势头。2004年中国国内生产总值达到1.65万亿美元，同比增长9.5%。进出口总额达到11547亿美元，由2003年的世界第4位提升到第3位。//
中国经济之所以能够实现长期持续快速发展，主要是由于我们始终坚持以经济建设为中心，用发展的办法解决前进中的问题，坚持社会主义市场经济的改革方向，大力推进体制机制创新，不断为经济社会发展注入强大动力；坚持“引进来”和“走出去”相结合，积极参与国际经济技术合作和竞争，充分利用国际国内两个市场、两种资源。//
本世纪头20年，是中国经济社会发展的重要战略机遇期。今后十几年，我们将努力把握机遇，用好机遇，集中精力全面建设小康社会，争取到2020年实现国内生产总值比 2000年翻两番，达到4万亿美元，人均国内生产总值达到3000美元，使经济更加发展、民主更加健全、科教更加进步，文化更加繁荣、社会更加和谐、人民生活更加殷实。//
参考答案：Since reform and opening-up, China has entered a period of rapid development, huge progress and profound transformation unprecedented in history. From AIGI to B00C, China registered a I.D% annual growth rate for its national economy, G% for people’s consumption level and AF% for total import and export volume. China has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world. In B00C, the per capita GDP of China, a country of A.C billion people, exceeded USS A,000 for the first time and its people have on the whole been able to live a moderately comfortable life. //
To address the outstanding problems in the national economy, the Chinese Government had taken a series of macro-control measures starting from the second half of B00C, which have yielded positive results within a short period. Some unhealthy and unstable factors in the economic performance have been contained and the national economy has maintained a momentum of stable and relatively fast development. China’s GDP in B00D is USS A.FE trillion, a I.E% year-on-year growth, and its total import and export volume to exceed USS A.AEDG trillion, rising from the fourth place in B00C to the third in the world. //
The sustained rapid development of China’s economy is attributable to the following factors: the government’s adherence to economic development as the central task, and solution to the problems on our way forward and to building socialist market economy as the direction of reform; our relentless efforts for institutional innovation, which has lent a strong impetus to socio-economic development; our policies of "inviting in" and "going out" and active participation in international economic and technical cooperation and competition in a bid to make full use of both domestic and foreign markets and resources.//
The first two decades of this century is a period of important strategic opportunities for China’s socio-economic development. In the next decade and more, we will strive to seize the opportunity and concentrate on building a society with moderate prosperity, so that in B0B0 China’s GDP will reach US＄D trillion, quadrupling that of B000, and per capita GDP will reach US＄C,000. By that time, China will be more developed economically, with an improved democracy system. advanced science and education and a flourishing culture, its people enjoying a better life in a harmonious society.//