If they changed, we would have no hope of building a society in which our people lead a fairly comfortable life by the end of this century, or of reaching the level of the moderately developed countries by the middle of the next.

• 如果这些都变了，我们要在本世纪末达到小康水平、在下世纪中叶达到中等发达国家水平的目标就没有希望了。