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Your Excellency Ambassador Li Baodong and Madam Lu Hailin, Prof. Wu Weishan and Ms.Wu Xiaoping, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Ban and I are honoured to attend this opening ceremony. I thank the government of China and Prof. Wu Weishan for bringing this enlightening exhibit to the United Nations. The sculptures embody not just the soul of a nation but of all humanity. I look at the figures of the children and they immediately remind me of the girls and women who take the UN as their frontline fighting for dignity, equality, and opportunity. And when I see the busts of Confucius, I recall my own childhood. I was brought up with the traditional education system based on Confucius thought, and I was deeply effected by it throughtout my life. Confucius thought that“ To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right. ” These words are as true today as ever. Here at the United Nations we deal with global issues everyday, and to many eyes these probems may seem too huge to resolve. But any issue can be broken down into small steps and individual solutions. Any problem can be solved when the heart is set right. This exhibit highlights the importance and the role of the individual people. It transfers the information to me that by respecting each other and working together we can create the future we want. Many thanks to Prof. Wu Weishan, for the wisdom in your hands, and for sharing it with the world. 尊敬的李保东大使及夫人侣海林女士, 吴为山教授及夫人吴小平女士, 美中关系全国委员会欧伦斯会长, 各位嘉宾, 女士们先生们, 能够出席此次展览的开幕仪式,我和我的夫人感到非常荣幸。