译文：

　　Dear friends in Fuzhou!

　　福州的朋友你们好!

　　I have had a very good friend in Fuzhou since 1985 and he just recently told me that Fuzhou Daily would like me to write some words about the

　　development in Fuzhou during the last 40 years.

　　自1985以来我在福州一直有个好朋友，近来他告诉我说福州日报想让我提笔撰写福州过去四十几年的发展变化。

　　First of all, I must say that it´s difficult for me to have any opinion about that because it´s more than ten years since I last visited Fuzhou.

　　首先，我要说的是自从上次离开福州以来已经十多年过去了，所以我很难对这个发表任何的看法。

　　But anyway, in 2005 Fuzhou Daily published some photos I shot in Fuzhou 1985 when I came to the city for the first time.

　　Photographers at the newspaper shot new photos from the same angle that I did and it was very interesting to notice what has happened in downtown

　　Fuzhou during the 20 years I came back for short visits six times and every time I noticed fast development.

　　在2005年，福州日报出版了我1985年第一次来到福州时所拍摄的照片。报社的摄影师从我当时拍摄的同一角度也拍摄了一些新的照片。从这些照片中我有趣地发现了福州城

　　区在二十多年间所发生的变化，在此期间我曾六次短暂地游历福州，每次我都发现其发展速度之快。

　　I don´t know if Fuzhou Daily at that time published my thoughts I wrote in a letter 2005 about the changes in Fuzhou.

　　我不知道福州日报在那个时候是否有刊登过我2005年撰写的一封有关福州发展变化的信函。

　　I remember I wrote that Fuzhou in 2005 had developed from a rather uninteresting city 1985 to a modern city and that the big changes, according to me,

　　started around year 2000.

　　我记得我曾在信中写到2005年福州已经从1985年时平淡的一座城市发展成为一个现代化的城市，在我看来这些巨变大概是从2000年开始。

　　I understand of course that development in Fuzhou has changed the city even much more since 2005, like in many places in the rest of the world.

　　我当然知道，自2005以来，福州的发展给这个城市带来了的更多改变。

　　I have been able to follow a little of the development on facebookpage "China Fuzhou" and I can just say - wow.

　　一直以来我可以通过脸书的“中国福州”页面了解福州发展的冰山一角。我只能说“哇”。

　　I can almost not believe all that I see on on photos and read the stories.

　　And I sure hope to come back to see the development i Fuzhou with my own eyes very soon, maybe in 2019.

　　我几乎不敢相信我在照片上所看到以及所读到的一切。

　　我当然希望不久之后或许在2009年能故地重游亲眼见证福州的发展。

　　It could be interesting for one who lives in the small town Rattail, with only 5 000 inhabitants, in Sweden a country where by the way 10 million

　　people live.

　　瑞典是一个1千万人口的国家，我所生活的那个小镇Rattail只有5千多居民，对于这样的我来说，这趟旅程应当会很有意思的。

　　Your friend

　　Hans Bloom

　　——

　　你们的朋友

　　汉斯.布鲁姆

（翻译：黄爱芳）