在參觀完李鴻章晚年的故居和古代中國廉政公署總署長包公之故居後，我們去市政府拜訪孫金龍先生，他是合肥市政府書記。他向我們介紹了合肥市近年經濟發展情況。這裏有212家世界之最強五百企業公司在當地設立辦事處。這些都是內地城市所共有的一些特點，例如：他們都有快速的經濟增長伴隨著GDP提高、豐富土地資源、以工業製造業作為提高經濟基礎為目標、有朝氣的年輕管理人員。當孫書記提到平衡經濟發展和環境保護是非常重要的時候，我明白這個政府不同於其他地方政府之處。尤其，水是我們人類生存資源是必需保護的。以前為了發展經濟犧牲環境的想法已不再有效了。
Meeting the Municipal Chief of He Fei City
After visiting the places of abode of the late Li Hung Chang and our ancient Chinese ICAC chief, Pao Kung, we then went to the municipal civic centre to meet Mr Suen Jin Lung, the Party Secretary of He Fei Municipality. He introduced to us the latest economical development at Hei Fei. There are already 212 enterprises out of the World Top 500 Enterprises which have set up their points locally. All these inner mainland cities have some things in common, i.e., they all have rapid economic growth with remarkable GDP increase; huge land resources; the aim to enhance their economic base from the manufacturing industry to the servicing industry; young administrative management etc…When Suen mentioned that it was very important to maintain a balance between development and environmental protection, it became apparent to me that this administration was different from others. In particular, water being the source of life had to be preserved. The old school thinking of compromising the environment for the sake of economical development is no longer held valid and true.
