英文原文

Dear juries, dear participants of the contest. Ladies and gentlemen.

Some twenty-three years ago, I had a great honor to participate the opening ceremony of Jin Tian Cheng(锦天城) Law Office. I still keep the photo with the first president of the law firm, professor Shi Huanzhang(史焕章).

I have witnessed the great achievements and rapid progress of the law firm starting from a small group. Now, it’s a worldwide recognized big law firm, not only in numbers of lawyers amounting to 4,000, but also to the high quality of service your firm have offered. I am more than happy to say a few words at this very much moment of the final stage of the English and Japanese language contest of your law firm this year. Because personally I strongly believe a competent and qualified lawyer to practice worldwide, like your law firm requires. It is so important we need to build up our ability based upon three major elements. The first and foremost, of course, is the legal background of the education and service for each and every one of you. And second, a very thorough understanding of the international, political and economic situations, because the world situation today, including in the sectors of politics and economies, we have seen, and we are going to see, the dramatic, rapid, and immense changes today.

The change is so unprecedented for a decade. The change itself is a big change in the whole world, in the whole time, as well as in the whole issues, reflecting in a daily life, and reflecting in all members of this international community.

Therefore, to know something of everything is so important for a competent lawyer and at the same time to know everything of something, to be an expert or to be a very academic based lawyer, is so urgently needed. How to achieve that? I believe language ability is so important. Because firsthand information, firsthand books, documents, whatsoever or something we need to get through easily, precisely, and correctly, let alone to say to reach the degree of accuracy. So, I encourage young lawyers in a law firm to practice more of foreign languages because they are tools. We are using tools to reach our aims. If you can have a group WeChat of all the participants of the English contest today, I believe the number is 30. Personally, I'd like to join your WeChat group, because we can have much more freer and instant talks whenever we need.

And at the same time, I hope the contest of next year will go beyond the scope and boundary of a law firm to let more and more people to believe to become a competent and qualified lawyer language is a must.

Finally, my warmest congratulations to all participants, not only to the winners, because winning of a certain contest is just a part of the history of yourself. However, to well use a language for your future is lifelong struggle. All the best to all of you. Thank you.

【中文翻译】

尊敬的评委、亲爱的参赛者、女士们、先生们，

二十三多年前，我很荣幸地参加了锦天城律师事务所的开业典礼。我依然珍藏着我与锦天城第一位主任史焕章教授的照片。我见证了这个律所的巨大成就和迅速发展，从一个小团队成长为了现在的大型全球知名律所，不仅律师人数多达4000人，而且提供高质量的服务。

我很高兴能在今年锦天城英语和日语口语比赛这一特殊时刻致辞。因为我个人深信，一个称职的、合格的律师要如锦天城一样提供全球服务，提升自我的以下三个要点，至关重要：

首先最重要的，当然是是你们每一位的教育和服务中的法律背景。第二是对全球政治、经济形势的全面认识。因为在今天的世界形势中，包括在政治和经济领域中，我们已经看到且将会继续看到激动人心的、迅速的、巨大的变化。这样的变化在过去十余年中是史无前例的。这个巨大的变化，发生在全世界、全时代，体现在我们的日常生活、国际社会每个人的方方面面。因此，对万事万物都有一定的认知，对一个称职的律师非常重要。同时，对某样事物无所不知，成为一个专家型、一个学者型的律师，亦是义不容辞。

如何做到呢？我相信语言能力非常重要。因为我们需要能够轻松、精准、无误地获取第一手信息、书籍和文件等等，更不用说所需要达到准确性的程度。因此，我鼓励事务所的年轻律师在外语学习中多加练习，因为他们是工具，而我们能使用这些工具达到我们的目的。

如果有一个贵所所有英语参赛者的微信群，我相信有30个参赛者，我个人希望能加入这个微信群，有需要时我们就能更加自由、便捷地讨论。同时，我希望明年的比赛可以超越一个律所的范围和边界，能使得更多人相信，为了成为一个称职的、合格的律师，外语非常重要。

最后，我对所有参赛者，不仅仅是获奖者，致以最诚挚的祝愿，因为在一个比赛中获胜只是你个人历史的一部分，但在将来良好地运用外语是个终生的课题。

祝大家一切顺利。