The biggest problem of the third industrial revolution is as easy to explain as it is difficult to solve. Technology is creating a global economy that is rapidly supplanting our old national economies. National governments cannot control this new economy, yet no one, least of all Americans, wants to create the form of global government that might be able to control it. As a result we were going to be living in a fundamentally unmanaged economic system. The difficulties of containing the 1997 Asian economic meltdown are just the first of many such difficulties we can expect.

　　National governments, which used to worry about managing and maintaining their economic systems, are slowly being pushed out of business. Changes in global finance overwhelm all but the largest governments. Governments have lost much of their influence over the movement of information and capital. They cannot control who crosses their borders either physically or culturally.

　　Conversely, the power of global businesses is growing with companies' ability to move to the most advantageous locations and play countries off against one another in bidding for attractive investment projects.

　　中譯英8

　　知識和技術(shù)創(chuàng)新是人類經(jīng)濟、社會發(fā)展的重要動力源泉。中國將致力于建設(shè)國家創(chuàng)新體系，通過營造良好的環(huán)境，推進知識創(chuàng)新、技術(shù)創(chuàng)新和體制創(chuàng)新，這是中國實現(xiàn)跨世紀發(fā)展的必由之路。

　　中國政府支持科學(xué)家在國家需求和科學(xué)前沿的結(jié)合上開展基礎(chǔ)研究，尊重科學(xué)家獨特的敏感和創(chuàng)造精神，鼓勵他們進行“好奇心驅(qū)動的研究”。在未來50年甚至更長的時期里，中國的發(fā)展將在很大程度上依賴于今天基礎(chǔ)研究和高技術(shù)研究的創(chuàng)新成就，依賴于這些研究所必然孕育的優(yōu)秀人才。