各位代表，同志们：在我们即将送走难忘的1998年，迎来新的一年的时候，正当全国人民隆重热烈纪念党的十一届三中全会20周年，满怀信心，团结奋斗，阔步迈向新世纪的时刻，中国戏剧家协会第五次全国代表大会在这里隆重开幕了。这是我们戏剧界总结过去，展望未来，以新的面貌， Dear Delegates, Comrades: At a time when we are about to move away unforgettable 1998 and usher in a new year, just as the people of the whole nation solemnly and warmly commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, we are full of confidence and striving for unity and strife. At the new century, the Fifth National Congress of the Chinese Dramatists Association was grandly opened here. This is our theater sum up the past, look to the future, with a new look,