在20世纪的温热夕照中,在人类社会行将跨入又一个千年的时刻,中国大地上发生了举世瞩目的两件大事。一是人民共和国以名列当今全球前茅的持续增长的速度,以历史上前所未有的雄劲姿态和世界各国一道迈步跨入新的世纪;二是祖国的和平统一大业有了历史性进展,在邓小平“一国两制”理论的指引下,1997年7月1日香港顺利回归,今年12月20日,澳门又 At a time when the human society is about to enter another millennium in the warm and twentieth century, there are two major events that have caught the world’s attention on the land of China. First, the People’s Republic of China, taking the ever-increasing momentum of world-class growth as the world leader and an unprecedented maneuver in history, has embarked on a journey with all other countries in the world into a new century. Second, historic progress has been made in the great cause of peaceful reunification of the motherland. Under the guidance of the principle of “one country, two systems”, Hong Kong returned smoothly on July 1, 1997. On December 20 this year, Macao and again