长江学者奖励计划十周年颁奖典礼致词

英文原文：https://www.lksf.org/english-speech-by-mr-li-ka-shing-10th-anniversary-of-the-cheung-kong-scholars-programme/ 日期：2008 年 12 月 5 日

官方中文版

尊敬的刘延东国务委员、尊敬的周济部长、尊敬的各位领导、各位学者专家、各位嘉宾：

早上好，首先我要向获奖的学者们致以深切的祝贺。衷心感谢刘延东国务委员于百忙中出席今次庆典，并对「长江学者奖励计划」给予大力支持；教育部同人和所有参与这个计划的人士共同付出宝贵心力，令项目取得重大成功，谨此深表由衷敬意。

十年前，教育部邀请我共同成立长江学者奖励计划，当年，这是一项大胆打破制度局限的创举，不仅突破了教研人员薪酬结构僵化及平均主义的局限，更能为国家吸引及稳住人才，配合推动创新和改革的迫切需要。当年我们向世界发出了「珍重人才」的强烈信息。今天，我非常雀跃地向大家说，我们这计划已实现了对国家、对社会的承诺，它所燃起的巨大改变实在超乎预想，在社会上激发了尊重知识、尊重人才的风气，鼓励和开启了整个学术界的热情，展现出无尽的光芒。各位学者，全因为你们竭尽一切努力，令到这个计划犹如一部发动机，为探索新的发明、新的可能性提供动力，拓展了全国大学和科研机构的新科学领域。

很多人常常问我，你一生努力建立一个成功的企业，为股东和公司属员创造价值，现在你又为何如此专注贡献于公益事业？处身现今流行的社会资本和社会企业的滔滔理论中，我的答案却很简单，在我脑海中有连串问题：如果把人类历史中兴衰递变的一切得失，细列在资产负债表上，那最真实和公平的观点会是什么？在一个变幻莫测的社会中，老定律已非必然，那么我们历久常新的价值观在哪里？在一个丰裕和竞争激烈的社会，当争取个人成就的欲望是如此强烈，谁又会领会为社会和谐付出心思与诚意的呼吁？在一个官僚和公式化令想象力流于匮乏的世界，多元的科学和哲理经验与情操如何能成为一个人生命的重要元素？

在现实社会中，观念和价值制度充斥着互不融合和相互矛盾，我不认为能有单一的良方可达至真正的社会和谐，但我深信其中一个重要关键，是我们每一个人的「至诚」，当我们在建立自我成功的同时，永远不要忘记追求无我，常常抱着为民族和人类作出贡献的良愿，当有能力及有意愿对社会竭尽一己之责，我们必能创出希望和有效的变革，打造一个真正公平、公正，充满自由动力和快乐和谐的社会。这是我个人的追求，我知道这也是你们的追求，愿与大家共勉。谢谢大家。

English Original

State Councilor Liu, Minister Zhou, officials, scholars, ladies and gentlemen,

Good morning. First of all, I would like to extend my hearty congratulations to all our award-winning scholars. I would also like to thank State Councilor Liu for taking time out to attend this ceremony and for her tremendous support. The richness and success of this programme could not have been possible without the collaboration and support of the Ministry of Education and everyone involved in the programme, and I take this opportunity to express my appreciation.

When I was invited by the Minister of Education to support the establishment of the Cheung Kong Scholars Programme, I saw that it was a bold idea conceived to tackle two concerns that I share: the systemic constraints imposed by an inflexible and inadequate pay structure and the immense need for our country to attract and retain talent to foster innovation.

With the creation of the programme ten years ago, we sent a strong message – the message that we value people. Individually and collectively, they are the key to a bright and prosperous future. Looking back, I cannot share with you how happy I am that the promise embodied by this programme was fully realized. The immense change it ignited, as witnessed in society’s heightened respect for knowledge and scholars, and in academia’s invigorated enthusiasm and towering achievements, could never have been fully imagined. Today, because of all of you, the programme has become a powerful turbine, powering new discoveries and new possibilities to extend the boundaries of science in universities and research organizations throughout China.

When I am asked why I – who has spent a large part of my life trying to build a successful enterprise delivering value to shareholders and members of the company – am now focused on giving so much away? My answer is very simple, even amidst the sea of the now-in-vogue theories of social capital and social entrepreneurship. My current and final priority began with a list of questions in my mind: if we could aggregate on a balance sheet all that we have accomplished or lost throughout mankind’s historic transmutation, what would be the truest and most fair view? In a world of change, where old certainties no longer seem to apply, where are our enduring values? In an age of prosperity and intensifying competition, when an individual’s fierce will to succeed is in overdrive, how can a message calling for informed, thoughtful, and a willing contribution to society’s mutual harmony be heard? In a world where bureaucratization and a penchant for systems foment a deficit of imagination, how can a diversity of scientific and philosophical experience and sentiment become an essential part of an individual life and contribute to the whole?

If I have come to learn anything, I know that there is not a single prescription possible for a society to achieve genuine and lasting harmony with so many irreconcilable and conflicting values and value systems, but I do know that one single attitude is key to achieving progress in this area, if progress is to be achieved. That key is our own personal dedication – giving ourselves to something greater than ourselves – something beyond the horizon and our own immediate desires and needs. In our quest for success in our own micro-world, we must never lose sight of the contributions we can make to the macro-goals of our country and mankind. It is when we are doing what we can with the capabilities we have and willingly fulfilling our duties and obligations to our nation and mankind that we will bring forth true hope and effective change to forge a fair, just, creative and harmonious society. This is my personal quest. I know it is yours, as well. And I am very grateful for what the Cheung Kong Scholars Programme is doing to give it voice and reality.

Thank you.