Fellow Countrymen, Distinguished Guests: Over two thousand years ago, Chinese culture gave birth to the ideal of a great world commonwealth of peace and prosperity. The political, economic, and social systems and goals that it entails are in full accord with those implemented and sought by modern free and democratic nations.
全國同胞、各位貴賓，兩千多年前，中華文化即已孕育出世界大同理想，其揭櫫的政治、經濟、社會制度與目標，與現代民主自由國家所施行及追求者，可謂不謀而合。