In the waiting room of Beijīng Railroad Station, an American engineer, Mr. Sirnma (a), is standing in front of the railroad map of China, trying to locate a city. Zhū Wényà (B) of the China Travel Service enters the room with a train schedule in her hand. B:   Sàmūsī Xiānsheng, nín yàode shí- Jiānbiāo. - A: Ò, xièxie, xièxie. Yōu Zhōngguō zì, yōu pīnyīn, hāojíle, nīmende gōngzuō sùdu bī yīqián kuàiduō le. - B: LÚxíngshède gōngzuō yě děi xiàn- dàihuà ma! Duì le, wō gāngcái Jìn-laide shihou, nín hāoxiàng zài zhāo shénme. Wō yěxu kéyi bang nín zhāoyizhāo? - A: NĪ kàn, Daqing bú shi zài Hēi-lōngjiāng ma? Wō zěnme zhSole bàntiān méi zhāodào ne? - B: Ò, nín zài biānjìngshang zhāo dāngrán zhāobudào le, Dàqìng zài Hēilōngjiāngde zhōngxīn, zài zhèr ne! - A: Òu! Zài zhèr. Zài liùshi nián-dài, qīshi niàndài, zhèr shi yíge bījiāo tèbiéde JīngJi dìqū. - B: Nín shuōde duì. Zhèige dìfang Jīngguòle chàbuduō èrshiniánde Jiànshè, fāzhānchéngle yíge yōu qīshiwàn rénkōude gōngyè chéngshì. Bāshi niándài chū yōu chénglìle Dàqìng Shì Rénmín Zhèngfū. - A: Zài shì zhèngfūde līngdāoxià, Dàqìngde Jiànshè sùdu dàgài gèng kuài le. Zuìjìn qítǎde gōngyè yōu méiyou shénme xīnde fāzhān? - B: Fāzhān bījiào kuàide yào suàn méitàn gōngyè hé Jīxiè gōngyè le. - A: Méitàn shēngchān zài Zhōngguóde zhòng gōngyèli zhàn hen zhōngyàode dìwei, Dōngběi yìzhí shi méitàn Mr. Simms, the schedule you asked for. Thank you, thank you. It has Chinese characters and Pinyin, that’s great. You people are much faster on the Job than you used to be. The Travel Service has to modernize its work too, after all! Oh yes— Just now when I came in, you seemed to be looking for something. Perhaps I could help you? Look. Isn't Dàqìng in Hěilōngjiāng? How come I've been looking for it for so long and haven't found it? Oh',- of course you won't find it if you look near the border. Dàqìng is in the center of Hěilōngjiāng. Here it is! Oh, here it is. In the sixties and seventies this was a rather special economic region. That's right. It went through about twenty years of construction to develop into an industrial city of 700,000. Then in the early eighties they established the People's Government of the City of Dàqìng. Under the leadership of the city government, Dàqìng is probably being built even faster. Has there also been growth in other industries recently? The coal industry and the machine industry would have to be counted among the more rapidly developing. Coal production has a very important place in China's heavy industry. Manchuria has always had a very high chānliàng hěn gāode diqǔ. - B: Duì, Dōngběi méitàn zīyuǎn bù shāo, shi zhòngyàode kuàngqǔ. Sà-mSsī Xiānsheng, nín yìzhí hěn guǎnxīn wōmende jīngji Jiànshè a! - A: Shi a, vo shi gōngchéngshī, wō yìzhí fēichǎng zhùyì Zhōngguō jīngji Jiànshède biànhuà, wō xīwàng Zhōngguō kuài yidiānr Jiànshèchéng yíge gōngyèhuàde guōjiā. - B: Xièxie nín. Xiànzài yōu hěn duō vàiguo péngyou guǎnxīn wōmende Jiànshè, wōmen shi fēichǎng gānxiè-de. Zhōngguō hǎi shi yíge hěn qiōngde guōjiā, xūyào shìjiè gèguō zhuǎnjiāmende bāngzhù. A: Nín tài kèqi le, nīmen gèfāng-miànde fāzhān sùdu hǎi shi xiāng-dāng kuàide. Érqiě, zhòngdiān fā-zhānde dìqǔ yě bù shào, wō xiǎng, nīmen yào zhòngdiān fāzhānde gōng-yèqǔ qīmā yōu shíge. B: Shi, yōu shíge. A: Chúle Běijīng, Tiānjīn, Shànghāi, Dàqìng yīwài, Nèiměng, Shānxī, Sichuan, zhèixiē dìfang zài zuìjìn shíniǎnli dōu hui yōu hěn dàde biànhuà, duì bu dui? B:   Nín biě wangle, wōmende yǎnhāi yídài, zuìjìn Jīniǎn Jìnbu hěn kuài o! Tèbiē shi Guāngdōng. - A: Guāngdōngde qīng gōngyè yizhí shi bú huàide. - B: Zuìjìn, nàrde shíyōu gōngyè yě gāode xiāngdāng bú cuō, nín méiyou tīngshuō ma? - A: Tīngshuō le. Wō zěnme hui vàng le Zhōngguō hāiwānde shíyōu ne? Hǎi yōu, Yúnnǎnde tèdiān shi shénme ne? coal output. Yes, Manchuria has very large coal reserves. It’s an important-mining region. You've always been concerned about our economic construction, Mr. A ■< Turns ’ Yes. I'm an engineer, and I've always paid attention to the changes in China's economic construction. I hope China will be built into an industrialized country very soon. Thank you. A lot of foreign friends are concerned about our construction now, and we're very grateful for it. China is still a poor country. We need help from experts of every country in the world. You're too polite. You’re still developing quite rapidly in all areas. And furthermore, you have quite a few key development regions. I believe there are at least ten industrial regions on which you are focusing development. Yes, there are ten. Besides Běijīng, Tiānjīn, Shànghāi, and Dàqìng, Inner Mongolia, Shānxī and Sichuan will all experience great changes in the next ten years, don't you think? Don't forget that our coastal regions have made rapid progress in the last ten years, especially Guāngdōng. Guāngdōng's light industry has always been pretty good. Recently, their petroleum industry has been doing rather well, haven't you heard? Oh, of course. How could I forget China's gulf oil? And what is the distinguishing feature of Yúnnǎn? - B: Shi Jīnshǔ gōngyè. A:   Nī kànkan, Zhǒngguóde qíngkuàng bú cuò ma! Nánfangde Jīnshǔ gōngyè fāzhānde gèng kuàl le. - A: Zhèi shi zhēnde. Suīrán wǒmen xiànzàide Jìshu lìliang hái hen ruò, kěshi wǒmen yídìng děi null Jiǎkuài fāzhānde sùdu. A: Mei wèntí, Jīshínián yīhòude Zhōngguó yídìng kéyi biàncheng yíge JlngJi qiángguó. - B: Xièxie nín, búguò yěxǔ xuyào gèng cháng yidiānrde shíjiān. A: Zhèi bù yídìng, yexǔ bú yào tài chángde shíjiān. Bīfang shuǒ shí-yóu ba! Yī Jiù wu ling niàn, nl-mende shíyóu chānliàng zài shìjiè-shang zhàn dìèrshiJiǔwèi, xiànzài ne, xiànzài shi dìbāwèi la! B: Shíyóu gōngyè tèbié yidiānr, pu-biànde lái shuǒ, wǒmen hái yǒu bù shāo wèntí, zài xǔduō fāngmian wǒmen hái dāi xué. - A: Bú yào kèqi, bù guān shi shénme Jìshu wèntí, rúguǒ shi wǒ kéyi bāng mángde Jiù qīng gàosu wo. - B: Tài xièxie nín le. Shàngcì nín bú shi shuǒ xiāng duō cānguān Jīge gōngyèqū ma? - A: Shi a, yǒu méiyou kānéng? - B: Yǒu, līngdāo zhèng zai ānpái. Nín fàngxìn ba! - A: Tài xièxie nimen le. The metal industry. Look, China’s situation is pretty The metal industry of the south is developing even more quickly. That’s true. Although our technical capability is still weak, we must work hard to speed our development. That's no problem. In a few decades I’m sure China will become an economic power. Thank you, but perhaps it will take more time than that. Not necessarily, maybe it won’t be too long. Oil, for example. In 1950 you were twenty-ninth in the world in oil production, and now—now you’re in eighth place!- Th’e oil industry is a little special. Generally speaking, we.still have a lot of problems. We still have to learn in a lot of areas. Don't be polite. No matter what the technical problem, if it’s something I can help with, please let me know. Thank you so much. Remember you said last time that you would like to visit more industrial regions? Right. Does it look possible? Yes, ny superiors are arranging it right now. Don’t worry! Thank you so much. - B: Shíjiān bù zāo le, wǒmen zhǔnbèi It’s almost time. Let’s get ready shàng chě ba!                       to board the train. A: Hāo, zǒu!                            All right, let’s go!