如果希望对中国制度变革之父邓小平在三十多年前所提出的“摸着石头过河”的策略有所提升与改进，以便更快达到河对岸，中国需要重视诺斯给出的有关制度变迁的启示 。
The alternative is to continue relying on what Deng Xiaoping, the father of China’s institutional breakthrough more than three decades ago, called “feeling the stones.” That, as North would put it, may not be the most efficient way to get to the other side.