so why are we beginning in Rolla, Missouri,

『資本主義的人民共和國』

showing you a bunch of middle-age blue-collar workers

本期節目講述中國

wandering around a job fair?

為何從密蘇裡州的羅拉開始

Do you have any office positions open?

為您展現一群中年藍領工人

-Currently, no. -No?

在招聘會上徘徊

KOPPEL: Because China is where their jobs went.

現在招聘辦公人員嗎?

China -- which relates how, exactly,

-目前沒有 -沒有?

to Mexican migrant workers

因為他們的工作去向是中國

picking cotton in North Carolina?

中國究竟是如何

Well, that's where the cotton is going -- China.

與在北卡羅來納州摘棉花的

WOMAN: Sit down, please.

墨西哥移民工人產生聯繫的?

Boys and girls, l feel a little cold.

因為這些棉花的去向是——中國

l think l need some clothes.

請坐

KOPPEL: Don't worry.

各位同學，我有點冷

That North Carolina cotton will be back

我認為我需要一些衣物

as soon as Chinese workers have milled it

別擔心

and cut it and turned it into...

北卡羅來納州的棉花還會回來

CHlLDREN: ...a hat...

因為中國的工人將其加工

a T-shirt...

裁剪，製成了…

a dress.

帽子

KOPPEL: lt won't occur to these children for some years to come,

T恤衫

but they are being trained

裙子

to compete in the global marketplace.

在未來數年之內 這些孩子都不會想到

l used to work at Briggs & Stratton

他們正接受培訓

and l'm unemployed and l'm looking for a job.

以在全球化市場中與人競爭

KOPPEL: American unemployed, Chinese children,

我以前在百利通公司工作

Mexican migrant workers.

現在失業，在找工作

They don't know one another.

美國的失業人員，中國兒童

They may not even care about one another.

墨西哥移民工人

But as you'll see,

他們互不相識

they're all having an impact on one another's lives.

甚至對彼此毫不在意

WOMAN: A 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit

但你們會發現

in midafternoon...

他們對彼此的生活有所影響

MAN: ...report that schools and dormitories have all collapsed.

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WOMAN #2: ...puts the death toll at more than 55,000.

下午三時左右

The spectacle of a profound national tragedy

發生7.9級地震…

has a way of erasing differences.

據報道，學校和宿舍倒塌

We can all relate to people who never had much

死亡人數已逾55000

and who've lost what little they had.

浩劫的國家災難

"There but for the grace of God," we say.

也許會抹去差別

The earthquake struck a region of China's heartland

我們心系那些沒有保障的人

that the government has targeted for growth.

那些生活貧困，又雪上加霜的人

All we've been seeing these last couple of months, though --

我們會說「願上帝慈悲」

what has engaged our attention and compassion --

地震發生於中國的一個盆地區域

is the massive destruction --

政府一直致力於在此發展種植業

the loss of so many homes, so many schools,

然而過去的幾個月中我們的見聞

the death of so many tens of thousands,

吸引了我們的注意，令人同情

so many children.

損失慘重

We look at these scenes,

家庭學校坍塌

and even those among us who feel no connection

數萬人喪命

or even kinship with the Chinese

痛失兒童

can empathize.

看著這些場景

"There but for the grace of God."

即使與中國沒有聯繫

We are all vulnerable,

沒有親屬關係的人

and these days, we are all interdependent.

都會同情

We'd been working for months in southwestern China

「願上帝慈悲」

near where the earthquake struck.

我們都很脆弱

Our base was the biggest city

目前，我們相互依存

that most Americans have never heard of --

我們在中國西南部工作數月

Chongqing.

地點在震中心附近

That's where it is on the map, along the Yangtze River

我們的基地是一個大城市

about 1 ,500 miles southwest of Shanghai.

多數美國人都沒有聽說過

[ Horn honks ]

也就是重慶

lt's a city with an attitude,

這是它在地圖上的位置 位於長江沿岸

a place that has something to prove.

上海西南方向1500英里

And once we've shown you

這個城市有其生活態度

a few of the things that are happening in Chongqing,

有其底蘊

you'll begin to understand why China and the United States

待我們向您展示

might have a very difficult time

重慶經歷的幾件事之後

getting along without each other anymore.

您便會理解為何中國與美國

The signs of interdependence are everywhere.

如果不再合作

The city is blossoming

兩國都會很難熬

with the icons of American brands

到處都有互相依存的標識

like Ford, Ethan Allen, and Wal-Mart,

城市中到處都有

and that's merely scratching the surface.

美國品牌商標

Love it or hate it,

比如，福特，伊森艾倫，沃爾瑪

our economic futures seem irrevocably linked.

這還只是表面現象

lt's a reality. Get used to it.

無論喜歡與否

Let me set the scene for you.

我們經濟的未來 都不可避免的聯繫著

A downtown square in Chongqing ringed with upscale shops,

這是事實，接受吧

most of them selling products

我來給您展示一個場景

that would be completely out of reach,

重慶市中心購物廣場高檔商場雲集

unthinkably expensive for most Chinese.

多數商品

And yet there is a new and rapidly growing class

完全超出

of Chinese who can and do shop here,

大部分中國人的購買能力

people for whom price is no object --

然而有一個快速生成的群體

hundreds of thousands,

可以在此購物

perhaps even millions of such people --

對於這些人，價錢不是障礙

a huge, new, and expanding market

幾十萬

for high-end Western goods.

或是幾百萬這樣的人們

But China's new wealths and its growing middle class

龐大，新型，日益壯大的消費市場

are still dwarfed by its hundreds of millions

購買高端西方商品

who live just at the edge of survival.

但中國的新貴和日益壯大的中產階級

The brutal truth

仍然被幾億窮人所拖累

is that China can barely take care of its people.

他們僅能維持生存的基本條件

There are simply too many,

殘酷的現實是

which is why you see murals all over the countryside

中國幾乎難以保障自己的人民

proclaiming the government's one-child policy.

因為人太多了

That's been the law for decades now.

農村到處都有標語

To this day, the government will impose a hefty fine,

宣傳政府獨生子女政策

sometimes amounting for the poor to half a year's salary or more,

這個法規已經實行了幾十年

on a couple that has a second child.

時至今日，政府仍會

lf anything, that has made children

對生育二胎的夫婦進行罰款

especially precious to the Chinese.

金額也許會超出窮人半年的收入

Perhaps the worst unintended consequence

如論其效果，就是使

of that one-child policy

中國人更加珍惜孩子

is that the earthquake left so many families childless.

獨生子女政策沒有預料到的

lf they're still young enough to have children

最糟糕的後果

and if they can prove their loss,

就是這次地震使得很多家庭痛失子女

those families will now be granted the right to try again.

如果父母還年輕，可以生育

[ Shouting in Chinese ]

如果可以證明自己的損失

They love children. They really do.

這樣的家庭可以獲得 再次生育的權利

But their government is trying to cope

他們愛孩子，真的愛

with the largest population in the world,

但政府卻因為

competing for very limited resources.

資源十分有限

You need to be able to look past the images

控制人口總數

of regimented youngsters wearing the symbolic red kerchiefs.

這些兒童帶紅領巾 接受嚴格管制

There are tens of millions of these children

透過表面現象

and hundreds of millions

這樣的孩子有幾千萬

of their desperately poor adult relatives.

他們絕望而窮困的

They all need to be employed and housed and fed,

成年親屬則達幾億

and Communism didn't do it.

成年人要工作，生存

What's beginning to do the job is capitalism.

但共產主義沒有做到這些

As for that massive population base of poor people,

資本主義開始盛行

they are China's weakness and its strength.

大量的窮苦人民

Call it the Chinese paradox.

是中國的弱點，也是其強項

CHlLDREN: A...

稱為中國悖論

B...

A、…

C...

B、…

KOPPEL: They are little engines of ambition...

C、…

WOMAN: W...

他們是雄心的小動力…

X...

W、…

Y...

X、…

Zed.

Y、…

Okay. Very good.

Z、

KOPPEL: ...all but vibrating

好，很好

with the earnest desire to succeed.

動力無窮

And all over China, from earliest childhood on,

熱切期盼成功

English and computer literacy

中國各地，從最早的童年

are being drummed into their little heads.

就向他們的小腦袋灌輸

China has big plans for this generation.

英語和計算機知識

Their skills will far exceed those of their parents,

中國對這一代有重大計劃

but that's down the road.

他們的技能遠遠超出他們的父輩

For the time being,

但那還需要時間

China's most significant contribution

從現在看來

to the global economy

中國對全球化經濟

remains cheap, reliable labor.

做出的最大貢獻

Line 'em up, snap it on,

仍然是廉價可靠的勞動力

plug it in, check it out, send it off.

排列，安裝

Snap it on, plug it in, check it out, send it off.

插入，檢查，派送

Snap it on, plug it in, check it out, send it off.

安裝，插入，檢查，派送

Snap it on, plug it in, check it out, send it off.

安裝，插入，檢查，派送

lt's an endless, mindless, bottomless pit of a job.

安裝，插入，檢查，派送

Anyone who's ever worked an assembly line

這工作永無止境，無需智慧，無窮盡

can tell you about the pressure and the boredom and the fatigue.

在流水線工作過的人

But if they don't like it -- and many of them don't --

都能說出其中的壓力，無聊，勞累

there is a vast labor force of Chinese countrypeople --

但如果他們不喜歡 事實上很多人都不喜歡

peasants and farmers --

那麼中國還有大批農民

more of them than the combined populations

大批勞動力

of the United States and all of Europe,

其總人數

desperate to take their places.

比美國和整個歐洲的人口數還多

And that is where it all begins.

他們盼著能走上這些崗位

CROWD: 5...

一切由此開始

4...

5、

3...

4、

KOPPEL: ln November of 2007,

3、

a demolition company in Las Vegas, Nevada,

2007年11月

fulfilled its contract

內華達州賭城的一個拆除公司

to bring down the old Frontier Casino and Hotel.

履行協議

lt was done in quintessentially American style...

拆毀了一家賭場和賓館

[ Alarm blaring ]

完成方式絕對屬於美國風格…

...quickly, efficiently, totally,

快速，有效，徹底

the debris loaded onto trucks and headed for landfill.

岩屑落到卡車上，徑直傾倒

[ Shouting in Chinese ]

這不是…

What this is not...

是簡單的拆毀工程

...is a simple demolition project.

這是的中國方式的工程

This is a Chinese-style recovery operation.

在水泥柱裡面

Buried within each of these concrete beams

有長的，值錢的鋼筋

is a long, valuable piece of steel rebar...

可以融化，重鑄，再次利用

...that can be melted down, recast, and reused.

如果勞工數量多，廉價

When labor is plentiful and cheap enough,

完全可以

it makes good economic sense

把鋼筋旁邊的磚敲下來

to chip the mortar off each individual brick

這樣可以在新工程中再次利用

so that it can be reused in the building of a new structure.

這些婦女平均一天掙一二美元

These women make the equivalent of $1 to $2 a day.

敲磚，收磚

Chip off the mortar, gather up the bricks,

背磚，扔磚

hoist them on your shoulder, dump them in the truck.

敲磚，收磚

Chip off the mortar, gather up the bricks,

背磚，扔磚

hoist them on your shoulder, dump them in the truck.

這裡男人比女人掙的多

The men here make more than the women.

但也只有三四美元 但他們認為收益不錯

Still only $3 to $4 a day, but they consider that good pay

比在家掙的多

compared to what they can earn at home,

在家基本沒有收入

which is essentially nothing.

這些人是農民

Most of these people were subsistence farmers

勉強養家糊口

who just barely fed themselves and their families.

好年景時也許會存有足夠的食物

ln a good year, they might have enough food left over

可以養一兩頭豬

to raise a pig or two

可以屠宰，或是賣掉

that they could slaughter or sell at market.

如果我在家，在地裡幹活

[ Speaking Chinese ]

掙不到錢

lNTERPRETER: lf l stay home working in farmland,

如果你在尋找建築方面的工作

l won't make money.

那就是這裡

KOPPEL: lf you're looking for a job in construction,

據估計這裡有150萬人

this is the place to be.

從事與建築相關的工作

lt's estimated that 1 1/2 million people here

這已經是個大城市 人口1350萬

are working on construction-related jobs.

但這只是直轄市人口的一部分

lt's already a big city -- about 13.5 million --

這裡面積相當於奧地利

but it's part of an enormous municipality,

人口超出3000萬

a region the size of Austria

接下來10到15年的目標

with an overall population of more than 30 million people.

是將這座城市外擴…

The goal over the next 10 to 15 years

將人口分散

is to expand the city out...

直到重慶人口達到2000萬

[ Horn honks ]

屆時1000萬左右的人民

...and draw the people in

將生活在農村地區

until Chongqing is a megacity of 20 million,

但更大的目標是將重慶

with only 10 million or so people

轉變為工業中心

left in the remaining countryside.

國際工業與交易中心

But the larger goal is to turn Chongqing

目前，本市已吸收可觀的美國投資

into an industrial hub,

比如百利通公司

an international center of industry and trade.

中國人流水作業

The city has already attracted significant American investment,

製造美國引擎

like this Briggs & Stratton plant,

這將我的生活完全顛倒了

where Chinese workers are now on the assembly line

我得找新工作

building American engines.

從前，引擎在這裡生產

WOMAN: This turned my life upside down.

在密蘇裡羅拉的

l've got to look for a new career.

百利通公司生產

KOPPEL: Those engines used to be built here

工作沒了，我很難過

at this shuttered Briggs & Stratton plant

但是做生意就是為了賺錢

in Rolla, Missouri.

有幾個工作職位招聘…

l hate the fact that it cost me my job,

這種遷移

but, you know, businesses are out to make money.

對合作底線有益

We have a couple of openings...

但嚴重傷害到一些工人

KOPPEL: And while the move was good

尤其是年長的工人，本以為 可以在百利通公司退休

for the corporate bottom line,

現在他們像誠惶誠恐的年輕人似的

it badly hurt some of the workers,

需要在招聘會上為自己尋找飯碗

especially the older ones who thought they'd retire at Briggs.

我找工作很不容易 因為我61歲了

Now, like awkward teenagers at a prom,

截止到現在，我應聘的公司

they find themselves shuffling through a job fair.

都說我資歷過高

lt's gonna be hard for me to get a job 'cause l'm 61 years old.

這是「你太老了」的委婉說法

So far, every place l've applied for

我叫帕姆·裡瑟

has said l'm overqualified.

之前我在百利通公司

You know, the polite way of saying, "You're too old."

帕姆·裡瑟在百利通公司

l'm Pam Leaser.

工作了近11年

l'm a dislocated worker from Briggs & Stratton.

顯然，她不太習慣找新工作

KOPPEL: Pam Leaser had been working at Briggs & Stratton

她從未想過自己要找新工作

for almost 1 1 years.

可是一天中國重慶的一個代表 給她打來電話

She's clearly uncomfortable shopping for a new job.

他們配備了翻譯

She never thought she'd have to,

我的老闆問我

until the day a delegation from Chongqing, China, came calling.

能否向他們解釋

They had a translator with them.

我的工作職責和工作方法

And my boss come up and he asks me

我看著他說：「不能」

if l would care to explain to them

我知道日後會失去工作

what my job was and how l did my job.