The Chinese economy is no longer the state-owned and state-managed system that it was when I first visited more than 30 years ago. In those days, there was no private enterprise, and it was illegal for anyone but the government or a state-owned enterprise to hire an employee.
中国经济已不再是我30多年前第一次访问这里时的国家所有和国家管理制度。当时没有民营企业，只有政府或国有企业才能合法雇用员工。如今，中国只有20%的工人为国有企业工作。其余部分为充满活力的分散的民营企业。美国跨国公司和其他外国企业也是中国经济图景中的重要部分。