英文原文

Dear Professor Gu, all members of the juries, and participants for this competition:

Truly wonderful to be here, actually, for the second time, last year I delivered my note of congratulations in video, today, on the spot of the law firm.

I still remember the first day of the opening of this law firm. I participated and also had the honour to be taken the photo with the former Chairman of the Law Firm,-so I am more than happy and excited to see the daughter of the first Chairman of this law firm- All the time, I remember his elegant behaviour, very profound knowledge in the field of law, and also, his personal contribution, that’s a great contribution to both the University of East China Law as well as this Law Firm.

Today I just tried to touch upon three key points. Why we need this kind of competition and how to achieve it?

First and foremost, I hope young talents to take this process as a process of learning, learning never ends. Just 3 weeks ago, I conducted a survey tour in the bookstore, on the 52nd floor of this building, supposedly the highest bookstore in China at least. They asked me to contribute something to the bookstore, it is called the bookstore on the cloud. I contributed a book list in total 16 books. Two writers just passed away yesterday and the day before yesterday. That was and still is the greatest loss of humanity, and all of the world.

So I will repeat what I did, including those four books. I need to ask you to learn, to learn not to just read. Reading is a part of learning. The reading is not learning at all.

The first book was written by Munger. The name of the book is “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” Remember the book? The Chinese name is 《穷查理宝典》.

The second book, of course, by Doctor Kissinger, the name of the book is “On China”《论中国》, Please read the book, written in 2011.

The third book, I will ask you to read is also his work, very heavy work. The name of it is “The World Order”. In Chinese《世界秩序》。

The last but not least book. Unfortunately, the Chinese version has not yet been published here in mainland China, but in Hong Kong, you can buy it very easily. The name of the book is “Leadership”. (《领导力》)

So please take the process of this competition as a process of learning, and learning never ends.

My second point is, try to make this a very interesting game. Competition is a game, is a noble game. It's not just something to take it as a fight. Not at all! it's not a fight, it's not a struggle, but it is a noble game. To learn fair play, meaning, of course, we are going to win. There should be a winner among the competition, but you must win it, with elegance, with reasoning, as well as with a kind of building up a friendship, make it the process of building up your mentality and personality.

The last point of mine is, try to make it a tradition of this Law Firm. Now, it is the third competition of such in the Law Firm. We are looking forward to the 30th and even more. Why? The reason is very simple:

Shanghai, got its first lawyer dealing with international cases in the year 1981, his name is 陈泽政. Everything's his personal endeavour. We started the legal practice with foreign interests, from 1 lawyer in 1981. Up to today, we have 3,500 lawyers in Shanghai, dealing with international cases. The law firm, the number of the law firm, is 177.

We have 15 law firms, including yours, having established kinds of substitutions overseas. 15 law firms in Shanghai established branches all over the world in total 31. We have 8 joint offices by one Chinese law firm and another foreign law firm, we call joint office, we have all total—all established in the Pudong Area- 8; We have 194 international law firms having their presence here in Shanghai. If I recall to the very year, 1990, we started the open-up of the Pudong Area, we got only 4 foreign lawyers practising here in Shanghai.

So, this kind of competition is a strong contribution to raise young talents to be more qualified in international legal affairs. And I hope all your efforts could be very well recognised as well as appreciated by the city, and by the country. Let’s all work together. Thank you again for your invitation. Thanks.

【中文翻译】

亲爱的顾主任，各位评委，本次比赛的参赛者：

很高兴来到这里。事实上，这是我第二次来。去年，我通过视频的方式表达了我的祝愿，今天，我现场来到了锦天城律师事务所。

我仍然记得锦天城律师事务所开业的当天，我参加了活动，并且有幸与锦天城前主任合影——非常高兴的看到首任主任的女儿也出席本次活动——我一直记得主任的优雅举止和谈吐，他在法律领域的深厚学养，并且建树卓越，对华东政法大学和这家律师事务所都是巨大的贡献。

今天我想谈三点，我们为什么需要这种比赛，以及如何实现？

首先，我希望年轻人把比赛的过程当做一个学习的过程。学习是永无止境的。三周前，我在这座大楼的52层的书店——该书店应该是中国最高的书店，被称为“朵云书院”——开展了一次调研活动。他们希望我为书店提些建议，我为书店贡献了一份书单，共计16本书。其中有两位作家昨天和前天刚刚去世。这两位作家的离世，是人类和全世界重大的损失。

我在此再介绍一次书单内的四本书。我由衷希望各位能够学习，而不仅仅是阅读——阅读不全部是学习，而是学习的一部分。

第一本书是芒格写的。这本书的名字叫Poor Charlie’s Almanack。还记得本书吗？中文名字是《穷查理宝典》。

第二本书是基辛格博士写的，书名是《On China》（中文名：《论中国》），写于2011年。请大家读读这本书。

第三本书，请大家读读基辛格博士的另一部非常重要的作品。书的名字是The World Order。中文名为《世界秩序》。

最后一本但同样重要的书。遗憾的是，中文版还没有在中国大陆出版，但在香港，大家可以很容易地买到。这本书的名字叫《Leadership》《领导力》。

所以，也请把这次比赛的过程当作一个学习的过程，学习永无止境。

我的第二个观点是，试着让本次比赛成为精彩纷呈的游戏。比赛是一种游戏，是一种高尚的游戏。这不是一场战斗，也不是一场斗争，这是一场高尚的游戏。要学会公平竞争，当然，比赛意味着要取胜。比赛是应该有赢家的，但各位必须以优雅、理性的方式赢得比赛，通过比赛建立友谊，使比赛成为培养各位心态和个性的过程。

我的最后一个观点是，这样比赛活动，应该作为锦天城律师事务所的优良传统得以传承。今天是第三届法律外语口语比赛，我们期待着会有第三十届，甚至更多。为什么？原因很简单：

上海在1981年迎来了第一位从事国际法律服务的律师，他的名字叫陈泽政。在他的个人努力下，自1981年，从1名律师开始，我们开始从事涉外法律服务。截至目前，在上海，我们有3,500余名律师从事国际业务，从事国际业务的律所数量为177家。

目前，在上海，包括锦天城律师事务所在内，我们有15家律师事务所在境外设立了总计31个分支机构；在上海，已有中国律所与境外律师事务所开设联营办公室，联营办公室总数共计8个，全部设立于浦东新区;有194家国际律师事务所在上海设立代表处。而在浦东新区刚刚开发的1990年，仅有4名外国律师在上海执业。

因此，这种比赛对培养年轻人才更胜任国际法律事务做出巨大贡献。我希望，诸位的努力将能够被这座城市和国家所认可和赞誉，让我们共同努力，再次感谢邀请，谢谢！