Its members have flourished in places and countries that have opened up to the world economy - the eastern seaboard of China, southern India, metropolitan Brazil.

Its prosperity, we are told in one account after another, has been purchased by a wholesale destruction of its air, rivers and forests.

Everybody agrees that scientific research is indispensable to the nation's health, prosperity, and security.

To put in a simple term, we are hoping to develop China into a country with prosperity, democracy and rule of law and a country that works for peace and cooperation in the world.

We wish your country evergrowing prosperity.