-   1. A: Zhōngguō meitan zlyuán bù shào, chànliàng hen gāo.

B: Shi, xiànzài Zhōngguō méitàn chànliàng zài shìjièshang zhàn dìsānwèi.

-   2. A: Cōngqiàn Zhōngguōde shíyáu dàbùfen zài lí blanJìng bù yuànde
    dìfang.

-   B: Xiànzài yànhài yídàide shíyōu ye fāzhànqilai le.

-   3. A: Zhèige kuàngqūde .1 īnshǔ gōngyè shi shénme shíhou kāishī
    yōude?

-   B: Bāshi niāndài. Jlxiè gōngyè ye shi bāshi niándài cài yōude.

China’s coal resources are large and output is high.

Yes, China’s coal output ranks third in the world.

In the past, China’s oil was mostly in places out near the border.

Now oil in the coastal region is starting to be developed.

When did the metal industry in this mining area begin?

In the eighties. There wasn’t a machine industry until the eighties,
e’i-ther.

U. A: Zài guò shínián, dào Jiǔshi niandài chù, zhèige guōjiā dàgai hui
biànchéng yíge Jingji qiàngguō.

B: Bù xíng, qlmà dài zài guò èrshinián.

In another ten years, in the early nineties, this country will probably
become an economic power.

No, it will be at least another twenty years.

-   5. A: Zhèiwèi zài guōwài yōu míngde gōngchengshī. huí guo yihòu
    zěnmeyàng la?

B: Huí guō yihòu yìzhí gāo zhòng gōngyè fāngmiànde jìshu gōngzuò.

What happened when this engineer who was famous abroad went back to his
country?

He has been doing technical work in heavy industry since he returned to
his country.

-   6. A: Bú jiù shi Rìběn, xiànzài gèguō dōu hěn guānxǐn Zhōngguō
    yànhàide Jíngji Jiànshè.

Not only Japan, all countries are now interested in the economic
construction of China’s coast.

B: Shi. Yljīng yōu xǔduō guōjiā xiǎng he Zhōngguō yìqi zài nèi yídài
chénglì xīnde gōngsī.

Yes, there are already many countries which are thinking of establishing
new companies with China in that area.

US

-   7. A: Tīngshuō zhèige nōngyèqū yījīng yōu lìliàng fāzhān gōngyè le.

B: Jin shínián lái, zhèige dìqú-de nōngyè shēngchàn gāo de bú cuò,
shōurù bù shào, gàole yìdiànr qīng gōngyè.

-   8. A: Tīngshuō èrshinián qián yōu hěn duō niánqīng rén dàole nèige
    méiyou rénde qiōng dìfang.

B: Shi a! Kěshi xiànzài zhèngfú kéyi fàngxīn le. Nèige dìfang yījīng
suàn Jiànshède bú cuò le.

I hear that this agricultural area already has the capability to develop
its industry.

Over the past ten years, agricultural production in this area has been
good and income has been high, so some light industry was set up.

I heard that twenty years ago a lot of young people came to that poor
and unpopulated place.

Yes, but now the government need not worry anymore. That place can be
considered to have been pretty well built up.

-   9. A: Zōngde lái shuō ba, zhèige chéngshìde biànhuà shi

    hěn dàde.

Generally speaking, the changes in this city have been great.

B: Shi a, zhàn zai shì zhōngxīn-de dàlóushang kànkan, wō dōu bú rènshi
le!

Yes, standing on top of the building in the center of the city, looking
out, I don't recognize anything anymore!

-   10. A: Xǔduō Jīngji lìliàng bījiào ruòde guōjiā hěn gànxiè
    Zhōngguōde bāngzhù.

B: Wōmen yě shi yíge fāzhān-zhōngde guōjiā, kěshi wōmen hěn gāoxìng bang
qítā guōjiā gāo jīngji Jiànshè.

Many countries with relatively weak economies are grateful for China's
help.

We're still a developing country, too, but we're happy to help other
countries in economic construction.

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  11.   hàiwān         gulf, bay
  12.   Guàngdōng      (a province, formerly Kwangtung)
  13.   Hēilōngjiāng   (a province, formerly Heilongkiang)
  1U.   Shǎnxī         (a province, formerly Shensi, now officially spelled Shaanxi)
  15.   Sichuan        (a province, formerly Szechwan)
  16.   Tiānjīn        (a municipality, formerly Tientsin)
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