4、记者：自从你上任以来，到目前为止你经历了哪些成就和挑战？

　　覃俭：我来索马里已两年多。我感到索马里人民很可爱，他们热爱和平，希望过上更好的生活，他们努力工作，希望国家发展和繁荣，这和中国人民一样，中国始终热爱和平。

4. Since you took the office what achievements and challenges you have experienced so far?

Qin Jian: I have been in Somalia for more than two years. I feel the Somali people are very lovely, they love peace and hope for a better life, they work hard and hope for the development and prosperity of their country, it is same as Chinese people, China has always been a peace-loving country.

　　对我来说，我觉得有很多工作要做。两年来，中国与索马里在政治、经济、教育、文化等各领域的交流与合作取得长足发展。每年都有大批索马里人访问中国，参加会议、学习和开展经贸交流。 “国之交在于民相亲，民相亲在于心相通”。我在前任工作基础上，主要推动两国传统友谊不断发展，讲好中国故事，传承两国人民友谊，让索马里人民了解真实的中国，知晓中国人民没有忘记兄弟索马里。

For me, I feel there are so many work to do. Over the past two years, China and Somalia have made great progress in exchanges and cooperation in political, economic, educational and cultural fields. Every year, a large number of Somalis visit China, participate in conferences, study and carry out economic and trade exchanges in China.

Friendship, which derives from close contacts between peoples, holds the key to sound state-to-state relations. On the basis of my predecessor's work, I have mainly promoted the continuous development of the traditional friendship between our two countries, told good Chinese stories, conveyed the friendship between our two peoples, let Somali people understand the real China, know that Chinese people have not forgotten their brotherly Somalia.

　　我衷心感谢索马里对中国的友谊。我在索马里交了很多朋友，他们都赞颂中国帮助索马里修建的公路、国家体育场、国家剧院和医院；他们许多人中文讲的很好，中文歌唱的也很好。这表明，中国与索马里的友谊根深蒂固。我的任务就是使中索友谊像参天大树一样枝繁叶茂。

　　现在，许多中国企业对赴索马里投资感兴趣，例如建造水泥厂、加工厂和工业园区等。目前，中国已在非洲建设了20多个工业园区。索马里有其地理位置、发展出口加工工业、年轻劳动力人口、海外侨民等独特优势。 希望索马里投资不断改善环境，尽快实现和平稳定。

I sincerely appreciate Somalia's friendship towards China. I have made so many friends in Somalia. They all praise the highway, national stadium, national theatre and hospital that China helped Somalia build. Many of them speak Chinese very well and sing Chinese songs very well. This shows that the friendship between China and Somalia is deeply rooted. My mission is to make the friendship between China and Somalia flourish like a giant tree.

Now many Chinese enterprises are interested in investing in Somalia, such as building cement factories, processing factories and industrial parks. Now China has built more than 20 industrial parks in Africa. Somalia has its unique geographical location, developing export processing industry, young working population, diaspora and other advantages.

It is hoped that Somalia's investment environment will become better and better, and peace and stability will be thoroughly realized soon.