An excerpt from Minister of the State Council Information Office Wang Chen’s speech, which he’ll be delivering at the opening ceremony for the 3rd annual Beijing Human Rights Forum next Tuesday:

The past 30 years of China’s reform has witnessed the exploration of promotion of the development of the society and people with new concepts, methods and approaches based on accumulated experiences.

It’s easy to get lost in the heap of prepositions. But what I think he’s saying is that there before development of society, there must be promotion for the development. And before the promotion, there needs to be exploration for the promoting of development. So before development, there has to be exploration and then promotion. And China has been in the exploration stage for the past 30 years.