英语外报阅读 Lesson One

Scanning and summarizing
• 1.1. News Lead: new job opportunity (paragraph 1-2) • 1.2. Problems posed, measures taken and goals set from Chinese government (paragraph3) • 1.3. Specific Efforts made by Chinese government (paragraph 4-9) • 1.4. Challenges to fulfill its goals (paragraph 10-14) • 1.5. Prospect (solution) (paragraph 15)
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• The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and was founded in 1877, making it the 报 area's oldest extant newspaper. Located in the capital city of 刊 the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on 知 national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of 识 Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and in black and white. In 2008, Marcus Brauchli replaced long-time executive editor Leonard Downie, Jr., serving publisher Katharine Weymouth. In November 2012, Weymouth announced that Boston Globe editor Martin Baron would position on January 2, 2013. 8/29/2014 take over Brauchli's 四川外国语大学成都学院 zzplovezzp
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1. population dividend
2. innovation 3. talent strategy 4. shortage 5. recruiting 6. transition 7. orientation
• The problems, a severe ＿ 4 of skilled talent, difficulty ＿ 5 qualified workers, the corporate struggles to find ＿＿ 11 managers, etc, for instance, confronting Chinese 6 from government are challengeable in the course of ＿ ‘made in China’ ＿ 7 to a ‘created in China’ ＿ 8. • To build an ＿ ＿ 2 economy, Chinese government launched12 programs and made great efforts to recruit more top 9 . China’s future growth, talents so as to win the next ＿＿ 3 , rather than on as expected will count more on new ＿＿ 10 1 ＿＿ and its ＿＿.
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8. capability 9. global race 10. investment 11. competent 12. high-priority
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1.1. News Lead/Introduction para.1-2
• What’s the incident reported in the article? • Chinese government decided to open its doors to talent from around the world to solve its severe shortage of skilled talent in the policy reversal. • suitor: (metaphor) employer • NASA (abbrev): National Aeronautics and Space Administration (see Notes 4, page 6-7)
1.3. Specific Efforts made by Chinese government (paragraph 4-9)
• What efforts are made to attract skilled talents to serve China? • 1) to launch several high-priority programs, the „Thousand Foreign Talents Program‟ • 2) to cultivate 100 “strategic entrepreneurs” • 3) to recruit more than 1,500 “high quality talents” to receive management training courses • 4) to open doors to skilled foreigners (to allow them to take senior roles in science and technology sectors and state-owned enterprises, to pay them equal salaries, and to offer them permanent resident-type visas.) • 5) to start to see talents as the key for winning the next global race and determine to transform its economic growth mode ( hinge on the new talent strategy VS on population dividend and investment) 8/29/2014 四川外国语大学成都学院
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You have to know…
• 1. innovation economy (see notes 6, page 7)
• 2. Knowledge economy is the use of knowledge to generate tangible(有形的) and intangible（无形的） values. Technology and in particular knowledge technology (Artificial Intelligence) help to transform a part of human knowledge to machines. This knowledge can be used by decision support systems in various fields and generate economic values. Knowledge economy is also possible without technology. • 3. strategic entrepreneurs (see notes 8, page 7) • 4. CCG (abbrev) = Center for China and Globalization (see notes 10, page 7)
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China Opens Doors of State-run Companies to World’s Top Talent By Vivek Wadhwa
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What is the Thousand Foreign Talents Program?
• The Recruitment Program of Global Experts which is also called the Thousand Talents Program is organized by the Central Coordination Committee on the Recruitment of Talents. The program will last for five to ten years and has been carried out since the year of 2008. It aims to recruit overseas top scientists and talents back to China. • It is hoped that the recruited talents will lead the innovative industries, improve key technologies and develop the hightech industries in State Key Labs, National Key Innovative Programs, State Key Subjects, National Enterprises, StateOwned Commercial and Financial Institutes and High-tech Development Zones.
Lead-in Question: What element is the most important
for a company’s lasting success? Why?
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1. Capital 2. Enterprise Spirit 3. Talent reserves 4. Market operation and Management 5. Innovation 6. Enterprise Network
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1.2. Problems posed, measures taken, and
• Problems:
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goals set from Chinese government (paragraph3)
1)research labs have long had difficulty recruiting qualified workers to perform necessary R＆D 2) its corporations struggle to find competent managers
To increase its national R＆D spending from 1.62% of GDP to 2.5% of that by 2020
• Measures: • Goals:
To give a national priority to talent development and increase the education level of its workforce to build an innovation economy • News terminology: • R＆D (abbrev)= research and development • GDP (abbrev )= Gross Domestic Product; • GNP (abbrev )= Gross National Product; • CPI (abbrev )= Consumer Price四川外国语大学成都学院 Index 8/29/2014 zzplovezzp