20年前,我亲身经历了北京亚运会,当时我还在职,不仅参与组织了全方位服务的科研队伍;而且还积极参加了亚运会科学大会,并负责接待了来自台湾的40多位学者。时隔20年,如果我要对北京和广州这两届亚运会进行对比的话,简直是天壤之别。这是我国改革开放的20年,各方面都有十分明显的进步,国力大大增强,经济飞速发展,国际地位空前提高。新加坡《海峡时报》认为“举办盛会是大国崛起的必经阶段”。它列举了近代美国、日本和欧洲发达国家兴起的历史,我认为这是事实。 Twenty years ago, I personally experienced the Beijing Asian Games. At that time, I was still in office. I was not only involved in organizing a full-service scientific research team, but also actively participated in the Asian Games Science Conference and was responsible for hosting more than 40 scholars from Taiwan. After 20 years, if I want to compare the two Asian Games in Beijing and Guangzhou, it is a far cry from anything else. This is a very significant progress in all 20 years of our country’s reform and opening up. China has greatly enhanced its national strength and its economy has enjoyed rapid growth with an unprecedented increase in its international status. The “Straits Times” in Singapore believes that “holding a grand event is a necessary stage for the rise of a big nation.” It lists the history of the rise of developed countries in the modern United States, Japan and Europe. I think this is a fact.