Ｔｏ　Ｖａｌｕｅ　ｔｈｅ　Ｐａｓｔ　Ｔｈｒｅｅ　Ｄｅｃａｄｅｓ，Ｔｏ　Ｃｏｎｆｉｄｅｎｔｌｙ　Ｌｏｏｋ　Ｉｎｔｏ　ｔｈｅ　Ｆｕｔｕｒｅ！

Ｖｉｏｒｅｌ　Ｉｓｔｉｃｉｏａｉａ　Ａｍｂａｓｓａｄｏｒ　ｏｆ　Ｒｏｍａｎｉａ

Iam very grateful for being invited to contribute with some thoughts at this time when Chinese friends prepare to celebrate three significant decades of reform and opening towards the outside world.From the very beginning I confess that I am writing these lines with a great deal of emotion and affection.That is be-cause as a diplomat serving already twice in Beijing,after the reforms and the openingup policies started in China,I had the privi-lege of experiencing in person some years of the miraculous changes in China's social and economic life.