商务英语阅读（第3册）（第二版）（新视界商务英语系列教材）

作者简介

赵淑容，硕士，中共党员，现为山东女子学院外国语学院副院长，教授，兼任山东省商务英语研究会常务理事，商务英语研究所所长。先后被评为校级优秀教师、科研先进个人、教学管理先进个人，并入选学校首批“中青年骨干教师”。

内容简介

Unit 1 International Organizations
Text A Regional Growth, Stability, Integration Set for Boost
By Vladimir Norov
Warming up:
1. Do you know any international organizations? What are they?
2. Please introduce one international organization you’re familiar with particulars as to its headquarter, aim, function and structure.
3. List at least 3 abbreviations of the name of international organizations for your classmates to guess the full name.

The China-Central Asia Summit, to be held recently in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, marks an important milestone in the history of the development of relations between China and the statesof Central Asia.
At present, the countries of Central Asia and China maintain a high level of political mutual trust and actively cooperate within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Belt and Road Initiative, which was proposed by President Xi Jinping in 2013.
Their cooperation promotes stability in the Central Asia region and contributes to the deepening of regional economic integration. During the summit, the six heads of state will exchange views on deepening cooperation with the creation of a Central Asia-China cooperation mechanism and new transportation and trade corridors.
Over the past 30 years, the volume of trade between China and Central Asia countries has increased more than a hundredfold. At the end of 2022, China’s trade with the countries of Central Asia had increased to .2 billion.
Over the past 20 years, China has also been one of the key sources of direct investment in the economies of Central Asia and its total volume of direct investment in the region has approached billion.
For the countries of Central Asia, Chinese capital — coupled with new technologies and solutions for agriculture and water management, industry, engineering, transportation and other sectors of the economy — is of particular importance.
Over the past 31 years, since the establishment of diplomatic relations, interpersonal and cultural exchanges and cooperation between the countries of Central Asia and China have been steadily developing, showing all-round development.
In order to enhance cultural and humanitarian cooperation, the meeting will discuss increasing the flow of tourists from China to the countries of Central Asia.
The six parties will also strengthen their security cooperation, having reaffirmed at last year’s online summit their shared intention to make efforts to fight terrorism, separatism and extremism in all manifestations, drug trafficking, transnational organized crime and threats in the field of information security.
The parties believe that one of the most important factors in ensuring security and stability in the region is the speedy settlement of the situation in neighboring Afghanistan.
In this matter, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s proposal for the creation of an international logistics hub to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and other countries is promising.
The region is gradually transforming into a zone of sustainable economic growth. According to the latest forecast of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the GDP of the countries of Central Asia will grow on average by 4.9 percent in 2023 and 5.4 percent in 2024.
The foreign trade of the countries of Central Asia is also growing, doubling over the previous six years to 0 billion in 2022.
At the same time, the region is becoming an interconnected market, attracting more and more investors. Over the past five years, trade among the Central Asian states has doubled.
Uzbekistan is an important participant in the Central Asia-plus-China format and plays a significant role in the economic and geopolitical development of the region.