They've spent a great deal of time over the last decades building their own economy, building their own society and their own polity, but it is to be hoped that the second phase of their growth will be somewhat more outward-looking than the first phase has been so far.
他们花很多时间 在过去的几十年中建立自己的经济系统， 建立他们自己的社会和体系， 但我们希望是， 他们发展的第二个阶段 能够比第一阶段 更看得远。