金砖国家英语介绍.ppt

BRICS
Contents
Member countries
History
Summits
Significance of BRICS
Identity of BRICS
Opinions about enlargement of BRICS
References
Member countries
Brazil
Russia
India
China
South Africa
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) together have a population of more than 3 billion - or about 43 percent of the world total. The BRICS economies account for 18 percent of the world's economic aggregate, 15 percent of foreign trade volume, and attract 53 percent of the foreign capital. By 2015, BRICS' total GDP will increase to 23 percent of the world total, and by 2020 to 31 percent.
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São Paulo, Brazil
Moscow, Russia
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Mumbai, India
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Shanghai, China
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Johannesburg, South Africa
History
The acronym (originally "BRIC") was coined by Jim O'Neill, global economist at Goldman Sachs in a 2001 paper entitled "Building Better Global Economic BRICs". The acronym e into widespread use as a symbol of the shift in global economic power away from the developed G7 economies towards the developing world.
On April 13, 2011 the "S" was formally added to BRIC to form BRICS after the admission of South Africa into the union.
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Summit
Participant
Date
Host country
Location
1st
BRIC
June 16, 2009
Russia
Yekaterinburg
2nd
BRIC
April 16, 2010
Brazil
Brasília
3rd
BRICS
April 14, 2011
China
Sanya
4th
BRICS
2012
India
New Delhi
BRICS summits
New Words:
Fluctuations n. 波动(fluctuation的复数);变动;起伏现象
whopping adj. 巨大的;天大的 adv. 非常地;异常地
Secretariat n. 秘书处;书记处;秘书(书记,部长等)之职
rotating system轮作制,旋转显示系统
On top of 另外;熟练掌握;在…之上;紧接着
Presage n. 预感;前兆 vt. 预感;预言 vi. 预示;预言
Imprudent adj. 轻率的,鲁莽的;不小心的
Aggrandizement n. 强化;扩大;夸大
BRICS Summit to Discuss World Economic Order Time:2011-04-13
Leaders from the five top emerging economies will gather in Sanya, in China's Hainan province, later this week to coordinate their stance on economic issues including fluctuations modity prices. The "BRICS" summit, made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and Sou