愿历尽千帆          归来仍少年

 

语言是人人都会演奏的乐器，她让人心相通。第四次工业革命让世界与我们近在咫尺。如何与世界开展有效对话，建立本土化与全球化的有机对接，已经成为当今社会精英人才的必备智实力。在这个明媚的初夏，歌乐川外的国家公派出国留学高级英语培训班学员围绕 “Why global competence matters？”展开了一场思想的有趣碰撞。本次英文演讲赛与才艺秀由我部青年教师王星耀和华中农业大学学员杨洋联袂英文主持。

出国培训部主任曾传芳开启了本次活动的序幕，她说，歌乐川外让我们一起聚焦跨文化交际学习， 这是一份珍贵的人生体验。因为有你我他的倾情付出， 有我们共同打造的活力SISU社区， 因为我们将迎来更加多元精彩的跨国交流。

贵州中医药大学附属第二医院宁杰、中国石油大学胡旭飞、贵州大学瞿娇娇和费学海、遵义医科大学李骏和罗云梅自信流畅地用英文诠释了全球胜任力的丰富内涵以及全球胜任力对国家 个人的深远意义。班级学员们合力演唱了经典英文歌曲 my love，you  raise me up，five hundred miles， 展现音乐与语言融合的魅力；英文电影配音《西游记》、白雪公主》与《疯狂动物城》再现经典片段的言语之美。段俊晖老师的经典吉它弹唱 You are beautiful 温婉动情，用音乐畅联世界带给我们别样温暖。评委老师刘华点评说，感恩SISU的美好遇见，愿每一个字都成为我们的人生誓言；用心构建我们的言语世界，因为它是通向和平与发展之桥梁。

出国培训部副主任张勇在结语中说，来到歌乐川外，我们不仅要让外语学习走进课堂， 更要让外语学习走进生活， 走进我们的心灵深处。因为世界很大，每次出发， 我们携带着深深的家国情怀，为遇见更好的自己；愿历尽千帆，归来仍少年。

让我们再次细细品味访学4班学员贵州中医药大学第二附属医院宁杰的精彩演讲。  

                               

                              Why Global Competence Matters？

 

 Ning Jie

                                    The 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine                                                                                                              

 

Today，I’d like to say something about this word “compete”.                                                                    

 

Five million years ago, ancient apes were driven to the ground after losing the battle to colonize the tree, then they began to forage for food and struggle to survive, eventually they evolved into human beings.                                              

 

Nearly 3,000 years ago, the state of Qin, struggling with disadvantages for a long time, chose to learn from failures and to be brave. It adopted an innovative mode to rebuild its national strength, which led to Shang Yang's reform. In the middle and late Warring States period, the eastern six states were crushed, and the Qin Dynasty was finally established.                                              

 

However, when we use the word “compete”, in ordinary people's eyes, it is nothing more than fighting for, chasing after and even life and death. Most of innovations in development come from competitive disadvantages. Competitive disadvantage will evolve into survival pressure and then be promoted into momentum or motivation. And the ability that we learn in the whole process is competence.                                              

 

The first industrial Revolution directly pulled Britain from the feudal society into the capitalism. Britain had climbed to the top of the world, becoming the first country to realize industrialization. That’s competence.                                              

 

Stepping back in time, if someone told our parents or people in our parents’ age in the 1970s, you were going to live in a nation where is rich in material and spiritual prosperity. Can they believe it? Through reform and opening up, Chinese people have made tremendous changes and created miracles in this country with heroic efforts. That’s competence.                                              

 

At this moment, brutal wars are bringing new sufferings to us. Invasion? Slaughter? Hegemony? I think misuse of competence would be the underlying reason. Misuse of competence for security. Misuse of competence for resources. Misuse of competence for controller and controlee.                                              

 

We live on such a colorful, vibrant, cerulean planet, however it has suffered tremendously due to human weaknesses such as greed, violence, suspicion and jealousy. Now we need to tackle new problems: environmental pollution, poverty and social injustice, to name just a few. People who conduct these miseries totally forget the significance of  competence.                                              

 

We want food. We want peace. We want knowledge. We might have disappointment, frustration, even fury, but always keep this in mind, the ultimate aim of competence is to shoulder  responsibilities to improve ourselves constantly and to create a better social realm, not hurting each other, not making others suffer.                                              

 

I still and will forever remember the opening night of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The thought-provoking slogan “One world, one dream” and Sarah Brightman's singing “You and me, from one world, we are family”. How wonderful, touching and  harmonious that moment was. All athletes around the world compete with higher, faster and  stronger competence not only  for honour, but most impofrtantly for friendship, solidarity and mutual understanding.                                              

 

We are the world, we are the children. It’s true that we’ll make a better world, just you and me. No more hatred, Let LOVE win!