有没有必要对举办奥运会和举办世博会在经济上可以带来的利益作很乐观的估计呢?举办奥运会和举办世博会对北京上海都首先是政治,其实有这一点已经足够。因为是政治,又因为中国人普遍具有很高的政治觉悟,因此对老百姓去算所谓的经济账多少显得有些多余。但是,看似多余的事情不见得真是多余。 Is there any need to make a very optimistic assessment of the economic benefits that the hosting of the Olympic Games and the hosting of the Expo can bring? To host the Olympic Games and host the World Expo is the first of Beijing’s political Shanghai. In fact, this is enough. Because of politics and because of the generally high political awareness of the Chinese people, it seems redundant for the common people to calculate what they call economic accounts. However, seemingly redundant things are not necessarily superfluous.