In 1793 the Emperor Qianlong airily dismissed the emissary of King George III on the grounds that China was the self-sufficient centre of the world and had no conceivable need of imports. Modern China should be so lucky. As well as foreign technology, Beijing now requires foreign oil, foreign copper, foreign iron ore and heaps of other foreign commodities to sustain its “Made in China” transformation.
1793年，乾隆皇帝輕率地回絕了英王喬治三世(King George III)派來的使節(jié)，理由是：中國(guó)是全世界的中心，能夠自給自足，想不到有什么東西需要進(jìn)口。現(xiàn)代中國(guó)竟然如此幸運(yùn)。除了外國(guó)技術(shù)，中國(guó)政府現(xiàn)在還需要外國(guó)的石油、銅、鐵礦石以及大量其它外國(guó)大宗商品，以支撐“中國(guó)制造”的變革。
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