Director of LUCI representing Latvia talking about the developments of China during the 19th CPC National Congress
在中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会召开之际，里加时间2017年10月24日中午，拉脱维亚国家电视台(LTV)对拉脱维亚大学孔子学院拉方院长贝德高教授进行了采访，贝教授向来访者讲述了他眼中中国的发展与变革。
贝教授说，过去这些年，中国取得了极大的成就：经济飞速发展，对此，贝教授以中国的高速公路网和高铁为例，向我们讲述了自己到中国后对中国高速交通发展的震撼体验。民生方面，老百姓的生活水平得到了很大的提高。环境方面，污染问题也得到了极大的控制。面对发展过程中出现的人口老龄化问题，中国政府也及时地提出了应对方案——“二孩”政策。此外，贝教授还特别提到了“一带一路”政策，他说，这项政策为中国与世界64个国家进行交流与合作提供了良好的平台，这一政策会让中国与世界各国的合作越来越紧密，也将有助于中国更快更好地发展。采访最后，贝教授对中国的未来寄予了祝福，希望未来的中国能取得更多的成就，获得更好的发展。
贝德高教授是拉脱维亚共和国成立后的第一批汉学家，拉脱维亚汉语教学的泰斗，拉脱维亚大学孔子学院创始人之一，长期在外交部和拉脱维亚大学工作，从事汉语教学工作和中拉友好交流长达50余年，做出了极其突出的贡献。
During the 19th CPC National Congress, local time 24th October, 2017, Latvia State Television had an interview have an interview with Professor Pēteris Pildegovičs, Director of LUCI representing Latvia, Prof. Pildegovičs talked about the great developments and changes of China during the past few years.
Prof. Pildegovičs said, in the past few years, China has made great achievements: the economy is booming, when it comes to economy, Prof. Bei took China’s expressway network and high-speed rail as an example, and told us his amazement about China’s high speed transportation when he came to China. About the well-being of Chinese people, the standard of people’s living has been greatly improved. As for the environmental aspects, the pollution problem has been better controlled. Facing the population aging problem, Chinese government has timely put forward a solution — “Two Children” policy. Furthermore, Prof. Pildegovičs particularly mentioned the “The Belt and Road” policy, he said, this policy provided a good platform for communication and cooperation between China and the other 64 countries all over the world, this policy would make the cooperation between China and the other countries closer, and helped China develop faster and better. At the end of the interview, Prof. Pildegovičs blessed China’s future, he hoped that China would make more great achievements, and get better development as well.
Professor Pēteris Pildegovičs has been among the first sinologists since the establishment of the Republic of Latvia, a leading of expert of Chinese teaching in Latvia, and one of the founders of the institute. Prof. Pildegovičs has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and University of Latvia for a long time. Prof. Pildegovičs has devoted over 50 years to Chinese language teaching and building Sino-Latvian relations, and made an extraordinary contribution to it.
