在当今思想多元化的时代,《中外新闻》作为联合国三家机构认定的主流媒体,以推出年度新闻人物的方式,对具有时代特征、为推动国际社会和谐进步作出贡献的新闻人物进行表彰,在国际社会树立起改革创新的时代精神,凝聚起“超越自我 奉献时代”的坚强合力。经《中外新闻》记者采访报道、主流媒体推荐函推荐,“《中外新闻》2014时代新闻人物”出炉:
As the mainstream media, we carefully selected the outstanding individuals to be the New Person of the Year to recognize their great contributions in promoting world peace and global harmonious development in various fields. "The News Person of the Year" award is a special prize to recognize innovation, peacemaking, dedication and professionalism. Now, we will announce the winners of the "2014The News Persons of the Year":
裴德盛是一名出色的外交官。裴德盛大使到中国任职前有良好的个人背景:曾获得丹麦国旗骑士一等勋章和格陵兰一等勋章以及由比利时、巴西、英国(GCMG)等国颁发的大十字勋章。2005 – 2010任丹麦王国驻美国大使。裴德盛任丹麦王国驻华大使期间,充分利用自己的智慧和外交实力推动中国和丹麦在政治?经济?社会和文化领域合作,取得了累累硕果?在过去的2010至2012年间,丹麦对中国的出口增长分别为14%、15%和17%。2014年1-6月,丹麦与中国的双边货物贸易额突破50.0亿美元,同比增长4.8%。裴德盛引进了很多丹麦中小企业来华投资。截至2014年底,丹麦对华投资项目815个,实际利用外资26.6亿美元。裴德盛在中国有一个实名认证的新浪微博账号,拥有超过3.3万名粉丝。
Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen is an excellent diplomat who had great experience before becoming the Danish Ambassador to China. He was the receiver of the Commander of First Class of the Order of Dannebrog and Greenlandic Order of Merit (Gold) as well as Grand Crosses of Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Luxembourg, Romania, United Kingdom (GCMG), and Thailand. He was also the Ambassador of Denmark to the United States between 2005 and 2010. As the Ambassador to China, he fully utilized his wisdom and diplomatic experience to promote China and Denmark’s political, economic, social and cultural cooperation and achieved fruitful results in the past few years. In 2010 to 2012, Denmark’s export to China had grown by 14%, 15% and 17% each year. Most importantly, in the first half year of 2014, the bilateral trading volume between Denmark and China reached USD $5 billion level, an increase of 4.8%. Ambassador Friis Arne Petersen has brought many Danish small and medium enterprises to China. By the end of 2014, Denmark already had 815 investment projects in China with the total amount of USD$2.66 billion. Furthermore, he currently has more than 33,000 royal fans in his Sina Weibo account for witnessing his great achievements in both China and Denmark.