时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:2017CRI中国国际广播电台


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Hans-Ulrich Bigler is Director of the Swiss Federation 1 of Small and Medium sized enterprises.


He says he expects the visit by the Chinese president to usher 2 in a new stage in their bilateral 3 relationship.


"I hope the visit can help further deepen the relations between China and Switzerland and the two countries will cement cooperation through their free trade agreement."


Six years ago, the two countries launched Free Trade Agreement talks in Davos.


They signed the FTA agreement in 2013 and put it into effect on July 1, 2014.


Official figures show that bilateral trade in the first nine months of last year exceeded 25 billion US dollars, up 9.4 percent year on year, despite a decline in China's trade with Europe as a whole in 2015.


Bigler said the FTA injected momentum 4 into trade and mutual 5 investment which especially benefitted Swiss SME's.


"Small and medium-sized enterprises are interested in all forms of cooperation. The FTA makes it easy for them to find cooperation opportunities. Swiss enterprises are interested in the Chinese market that still keeps growing. They see great development potential and cooperation opportunities in China. Meanwhile, we have also noticed more and more Chinese companies are coming to Switzerland."


Currently, Switzerland is China's 7th largest trading partner in Europe, while China is Switzerland's largest partner in Asia.


Bigler said the pursuit of an open economy has contributed to the win-win cooperation between the two sides and that the promotion 6 of globalization is an area where the two countries should seek stronger cooperation.


"Switzerland has been building up an open economy. It's proven that an open economy can boost growth and employment, while protectionism will bring more losses than gains. Globalization is inevitable 7 and can benefit any economy. China's economy is the most important one in the world. The growth of the world depends on the growth of China. China's prosperity benefits the whole world."


Bigler, who is also a member of the Swiss parliament, came to China in April last year, when then Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann paid a state visit.


As part of that trip, the two sides agreed to establish an unprecedented 8 innovative 9 strategic partnership 10.


Bigler also suggested that besides the economy, the two countries should make greater efforts to seek greater common ground in terms of politics.


For CRI, this is Guan Chao.



1 federation
n.同盟,联邦,联合,联盟,联合会
  • It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
  • Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。
2 usher
n.带位员,招待员;vt.引导,护送;vi.做招待,担任引座员
  • The usher seated us in the front row.引座员让我们在前排就座。
  • They were quickly ushered away.他们被迅速领开。
3 bilateral
adj.双方的,两边的,两侧的
  • They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
  • There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题,两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。
4 momentum
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
5 mutual
adj.相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的
  • We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
  • Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。
6 promotion
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
7 inevitable
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
8 unprecedented
adj.无前例的,新奇的
  • The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
  • A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
9 innovative
adj.革新的,新颖的,富有革新精神的
  • Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
  • He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。
10 partnership
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
学英语单词
active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha