Ladies and Gentlemen: as mentioned earlier, the democracy movement in mainland China traces its beginnings to the "Hundred Flowers" movement of 1956, after which the democracy movement continued an unbroken development, wave by wave.
如前所述，大陸的民主運動自一九五六年「百花齊放運動」時已揭開序幕，以後則波濤相逐，從無間斷。