本文为清华大学汽车产业与技术战略研究院赵福全院长2018年10月5日在印度金奈“2018世界汽车工程年会”闭幕式上，接任世界汽车工程师学会联合会（FISITA）主席职务后发表的就职演讲。原文为英文（后附），由刘宗巍副教授翻译。

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我很自豪能够出任FISITA主席（2018-2020），从而跻身于该组织70年历史上受人尊敬的主席们之列。而有机会领导这样一个代表着全球37个成员国和近21万名汽车工程师的国际组织，尤其是在其聚焦于技术开放及产业化以有力支持人类社会出行升级的新时期，我倍感荣幸。

众所周知，能源消耗、环境污染、交通拥挤和行车安全等诸多问题对百年汽车产业提出了严峻挑战。与此同时，信息、互联、大数据、人工智能等新技术也给产业带来了前所未有的挑战和机遇。全球汽车产业正在经历一场重大变革，产业将由此渐趋无边界。所以对我们而言，跨越不同大洲以及不同行业的紧密合作将比以往任何时候都更加重要。

作为一个中国人，我在日本、英国和美国学习工作了近20年。我的国际经验告诉我，沟通、友谊、合作是人类共同的天性，这无关宗教信仰或民族属性。只要你敞开胸襟用心去理解和接受他人，地球就是平的。而这正是FISITA必须让全世界工程师共同努力、创造美好未来的基本理念。作为FISITA的主席，我想再次强调合作、交流与分享的重要性，这将使我们的产业更好，使我们的组织更好，并且最终使我们的生活更好。

我钟爱FISITA的重要原因之一是其连续性和一贯卓越，这是由主席、预备主席和前任主席的组织设定来保障的。在过去的两年里，我和前任主席Dan Nicholson步调一致地紧密合作；而在接下来的两年里，我将和预备主席NadineLeclair一起加倍努力地工作，以继续确保FISITA领导层的继承性，这样我们就可以作为一个团队向着长远的愿景而不断前进。

作为新任主席，我将和此前诸位主席一样致力于团队工作，与所有的支持者共同形成团队——与执行委员会合作，与荣誉委员会合作，与能够帮助推动我们组织向前发展的每一个人合作。同时，我想用三个关键词来强调我的工作重点：即质量、参与和认可。当前，FISITA正处于一个全新的时代，我们将成为推动人类社会出行转型进程的重要组织。因此，高质量发展是我任期内的关键。我们将欢迎各会员国以及成员企业更加积极地开展和参与各种活动。我们也将努力找到一种模式，让我们的成员更多地受益，并且让我们有影响力的关键个人和杰出支持者们的重大贡献，在全球范围内得到更大的认可。为此，我恳请大家和我一起努力，让我们的家园FISITA变得更加美好！

最后，借此机会我想对组织本次年会的印度同仁们表示衷心的感谢——正是他们的盛情款待才使我们能在如此短暂的停留中体验到如此之多，我想大家都会期待有机会再来印度。也感谢你们所有人，大家千里迢迢来到金奈——是你们使本次年会取得了巨大的成功——愿大家过得开心。让我们两年之后在捷克的布拉格再次相聚！

谢谢大家，并祝大家返程路上平安顺利！

【英文原文】

Honorable Governer, distinguished guests,ladies and gentlemen Good afternoon

I am very proud to be serving as the President ofFISITA for 2018-2020 amongst a very distinguished group of Presidents who haveserved over the last 70 years of history. I feel honored to have such a greatopportunity of leading such an international organization representing nearly210 thousands of engineers from 37 countries focusing on technologiesdevelopment and industrialization to support mobility for our societies.

As all of you know manychallenges such as energy issues, pollution, traffic congestion and safety are ahead of our more than 100years old industry. Meanwhile the new technologies such as IT, connectivity ,big data, AI and so on are bringing in significant challenges and opportunitiesto our industry. Our industry is undergoing a major transformation. Theindustry is becoming borderless. So now than ever, collaboration across theindustries and across the continents is far more important for our industry.

As a Chinese native I spentnearly twenty years overseas studying and working in Japan, UK and US. Myinternational experience tells me communication, collaboration and friendshipare the common natures of human beings regardless of your religion or nationalities.The planet is flat if you are open-minded and trying to understand and acceptothers. That is the fundamental personality FISITA has to get engineers aroundthe world to work together to make our future better. As the President ofFISITA. I want to re-emphasize the importance of communication, collaborationand sharing to make our industry better, make our community better and the endof the day make our life better.

I like FISITA the most isthe continuity and continued excellence that have been built up by theorganizational setup of President, President Elect and Past President. I reallyfeel very aligned in working with our Past President Dan Nicholson for the lasttwo years and I will work very hard with our President Elect Nadine Leclair during thenext two years to make sure that the leadership of FISITA has continuity andthat we are driving forward all the time as a team with long-term vision.

As the new President, what you can expect from me isthe team work, teaming with all the constituencies the past presidents havedone - working with the Executive Board, working with the Honorary Committee,working together with everyone who can help move the organisation forward. MeanwhileI want to use three key words to emphasize the focus of my jobs: Quality,Involvement and recognition. To my knowledge, FISITA enters a new era ofevolving into a well-respected internal organization in mobility community. QUALITYIS THE KEY WORD OF MY TERM OF PRESIDENCY. We will welcome moreactive involvements of member societies and corporate members. Meanwhile wewill make a great effort to find a way to deliver more benefits to our membersand promote global recognitions of significant contributions from our keyinfluential individuals and outstanding supporters. I want to ask all of you tojoin me to work hard together to make our home FISITA better.

Finally I would like tomorrow this stage to thank our Indian friends for their great hospitality – weenjoyed so much for the short stay and we love to come back, thank you all ofyou who travelled thousands of miles to Chennai – it is you who made this eventa great success – I hope you all had a great fun. We look forward to seeing allof you two years later in Prague, Czech.

Thank you and wish you a safe trip back home!