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演讲者：特雷莎·梅；来源：互联网
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1月25日英国首相特雷莎·梅在瑞士达沃斯世界经济论坛年会上表示，英国支持自由贸易和全球规则体系，并认为应该继续加以推进，确保各方从中受益。
特雷莎·梅在演讲中表示，英国虽然“脱欧”，但将继续成为全球自由贸易的倡导者。离开欧盟后，英国将推动世贸组织谈判取得进展，寻求新的合作伙伴，在全球范围内发展新的双边贸易关系。
特雷莎·梅还阐释了任内推行的产业战略。她说，拥抱技术的关键在于引导政府和企业合作，抓住技术机遇，在全球范围内创造高质量、高回报的工作岗位。政府为企业创造好的成长环境，帮助企业投资国家的未来。她希望通过产业战略向全世界传递清晰的信息——英国将成为世界上最好的创业和发展地之一。
谈到技术进步对于经济和社会的影响，她说，亚马逊和阿里巴巴等公司已经成长为全球企业巨头，在数十亿人的生活中发挥着重要作用。
英国首相特雷莎·梅达沃斯主旨演讲稿英文版
Last year, on this platform, I argued that the benefits of free trade were not being felt by all. And I warned that the failure of political and business leaders to address this threatened to undermine popular support for the entire rules based system on which our global security and prosperity depends.
But I also argued that we could change this. Not by turning our backs on free trade or the global rules based system – which together have delivered the greatest advances in prosperity we have ever known. But rather by doubling down on them and acting to ensure that the global economy works for everyone.
One year on, I believe there are grounds for optimism. Global growth has continued to strengthen, with the IMF estimating that global output last year grew by 3.7%. The populism of the Far Left and Far Right has not made the progress that some had predicted.
And in the UK, we have seen productivity rising, unemployment at its lowest rate for over 40 years and more and more examples of government and business working together to bring new jobs and opportunities to communities across our country.
We have also seen important progress on global trade. The UK has been at the forefront of championing new trade deals, including the EU’s deals with Canada and Japan. The G20 has agreed commitments to tackle overcapacity in steel and the World Trade Organisation has made progress towards launching plurilateral discussions on digital trade.
And as we leave the European Union, the UK will continue to be a global advocate of free trade. Pushing for progress on WTO discussions; seeking to bring new partners to the table – and, of course, after we have left the EU, developing new bilateral deals with countries across the world.
But there is much more to be done by the whole international community. And, frankly, too often our rhetoric in support of free trade here in Davos is not matched by our actions.
The commitments on steel must be implemented.
Like the UK, other big aid donors should support developing countries to ensure they can harness the benefits of global growth.
And the World Trade Organisation still needs to go much further in its reforms, ensuring its rulebook keeps pace with developments in the global economy.
For example, services make up 6 per cent of global GDP – yet while some recent trade negotiations are achieving more ambitious outcomes on services, the Trade in Services Agreement remains stalled.
And while the likes of eBay, Amazon and Alibaba have grown into global giants, taking on a central role in the lives of billions around the world, the WTO has been struggling to remove barriers to e-commerce trade for almost twenty years.
Progress on these issues really matters. Because technological advances continue to revolutionise the possibilities for humanity and we must have the international frameworks in place to ensure everyone can benefit from them.
Already, access to the internet has been estimated to have the potential to generate over $2.2 trillion in additional GDP and more than 140 million new jobs in developing countries alone.
While nearly 35 per cent of the adult population in Sub-Saharan Africa has a mobile money account, the highest percentage in the world.
And now the impact of technology is growing in ways that even a few years ago we could not have imagined.
Just last week, a drone saved two boys drowning off the coast of Australia by carrying a floatation device to them.
The use of Artificial Intelligence is transforming healthcare. In one test, machine learning reduced the number of unnecessary surgeries for breast cancer by a third.
The development of speech recognition and translation is reaching a level where we will be able to go anywhere in the world and communicate using our native language.
While British-based companies like Ripjar are pioneering the use of data science and Artificial Intelligence to protect companies from money laundering, fraud, cyber-crime and terrorism.
In all these ways, harnessing the power of technology is not just in all our interests – but fundamental to the advance of humanity.
But this technological progress also raises new and profound challenges which we need to address.
For example, many fear that because of technology they and their children will lose out on the jobs of the future.
And they worry too about how new technologies might be exploited by those with malevolent intentions; and what that could mean for the safety and wellbeing of their families and children.
So today I am going to make the case for how we can best harness the huge potential of technology.
But also how we address these profound concerns. So that technology is the force for progress that we all know it can be.
Right across the long sweep of history - from the invention of electricity to the advent of factory production - time and again initially disquieting innovations have delivered previously unthinkable advances and we have found the way to make those changes work for all our people.
Now we must find the way to do so again.
Industrial Strategy
Let me start with how we can embrace technology.
Key to this is channelling the power of government and business in partnership to seize the opportunities of technology and create high-quality, well-paid jobs right across the world.
That is why in the UK I have put the development of a Modern Industrial Strategy at the heart of the government’s agenda.
It is a new long-term approach to shaping a stronger and fairer economy – and it understands what government and business each bring to the table.
Because I understand the power of business as a force for good.
I know that it is free and competitive markets that drive the innovation, creativity and risk-taking that have enabled so many of the great advances of our time.
But I also understand the good that government can do, creating the conditions where successful businesses can emerge and grow, and helping them to invest in the future of our nation.
So the message of our industrial strategy to the world is clear: Britain will be one of the best places in the world in which to start and grow a business.
The strategy gets the fundamentals right.
It drives investment in infrastructure at a local as well as a national level.
And it equips our people with the skills they need – and the skills business needs – to be successful in a changing global economy.
For if we are to retain popular support for the rules based system, we have to stop and understand - sitting up here in these mountains in Davos - what it can really feel like for someone who has worked for twenty years and who now finds that the job they know how to do today is not going to be a job that needs doing in the future.
And the answer isn’t to pretend we can sit back and leave it to the labour market alone to resolve.
We need to act decisively to help people benefit from global growth now.
That is why as part of our industrial strategy, there is a focus on supporting new jobs and industries that build on the strengths of local communities.
For example, on our East Coast, Hull is getting behind offshore wind, generating hundreds of jobs in partnership with Siemens.
And just as we act to help support new jobs today, so we also need to help people secure the jobs of tomorrow.
So we are establishing a technical education system that rivals the best in the world, alongside our world-class higher education system.
We are developing a National Retraining Scheme to help people learn throughout their career.
And we are establishing an Institute of Coding - a consortium of more than 60 universities, businesses and industry experts to support training and retraining in digital skills.
And I know from my conversations with tech companies how seriously they are taking their own social responsibility to contribute to the retraining that will help people secure new opportunities in the digital economy.
