今日主題:China's consumers-- Still kicking 中國的消費大軍--依舊活躍 (中)
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中英文稿:
JD, its main local rival, saw revenues leap by nearly 58%.
京東作為阿里巴巴主要的競爭對手,它的年收入增長也有將近58%。
Chinese are still spending heavily abroad.
中國人依舊有較高的境外支出。
Their international tax-free shopping shot up 58% last year, according to a new report from Global Blue, a big operator of duty-free shops.
據環球藍聯新公佈的一份報告顯示,在2015年,國際免稅購物額激增58%(環球藍聯是一家較大的免稅店運營商)。
Overall, Chinese tourists spent 215 billion on outbound travel last year, a rise of 53% on the previous year.
總體來說,在去年,中國遊客的境外旅遊支出達2150億美元,同比增長53%。
Ctrip, a big online travel firm partly owned by Baidu, a Chinese internet search giant, saw its revenues jump by nearly half last year, to 10.9 billion yuan.
攜程一家線上旅遊公司,其股東之一是百度(中國的搜尋引擎巨頭),其年收入為109億人民幣,同比增加近一半之多。
As with cars, screens and travel, so with consumption generally.
消費跟汽車、螢屏以及旅遊是一樣的。
All retail sales across the economy, adjusted for inflation, rose by 9.6% during the first quarter, compared with the same period a year ago.
與去年同期相比,今年第一季度的零售銷售額增長率為9.6%(排除通貨膨脹因素的影響)。
The services sector, which caters to the growing demands of the middle class, has been rising by 8% a year in real terms since 2012.
服務業滿足中產階級日益增長的需求,從2012年開始,其銷售額就已經增加了8%。
Services made up 57% of economic output in the first quarter; electricity consumption in services rose by some 10%, but was as flat for industry.
在第一季度,服務輸出占經濟總輸出的57%;服務業用電量增長近10%, 但是工業用電量呈現平穩趨勢。
Not every market is as bouncy as it once was.
並非所有市場都能一如既往地充滿活力。
A cooling economy and an official anti-corruption drive have squeezed luxury goods, sales of which fell by 2% year on year in 2015, to 113 billion yuan.
經濟趨冷以及國家反腐行動已對奢侈品造成壓力,其2016年年銷售額為1130億人民幣,同比下降了2%。
But some firms are doing well.
但有些公司表現得不錯。
Remy Cointreau, a premium liquor brand offering tamper-proof bottles on the mainland (near field communications tags tell your smartphone if the booze has been diluted), saw global revenues rise by nearly 10% last quarter and credited improving trends in greater China.
人頭馬君度—一個高檔烈性酒品牌,它向中國大陸提供一種NFC酒瓶(近場通訊技術標識會使得智慧手機得以分辨出該酒是否已被稀釋),其2015年第四季度收入增長近10%,並被譽為大中華地區日益盛行的潮流。
According to Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH, a luxury goliath: Analysts underestimate the Chinese economy… the fundamentals are good. Household spending is still increasing.
奢侈品巨頭路易?威登集團的老闆貝爾納?阿爾諾說道:分析員們低估了中國經濟……基本情況是好的。家庭支出仍在增加。
The two Chinas
兩個中國
Can consumption remain resilient given the troubles of the country's state-dominated industrial economy, ranging from vast overcapacity to record levels of debt?
考慮到這個國家國企主導的工業經濟陷於困難之中,具體表現在生產能力過剩和負債達到新高,這個國家的消費還能保持彈性嗎?
One temporary source of comfort is the fact that the state sector may now itself be stabilising, thanks to a massive, debt-fuelled government stimulus.
但比較令人寬慰的是,國有部門現在正穩定下來,這要歸功於政府大規模的債務刺激。
But greater reassurance comes from the fact that even a big shakeout in heavy industry would be unlikely to derail the Chinese consumer.
即使重工業嚴重跌落也不會使中國消費脫軌失控,這才是最大的信心來源。
By one estimate, if 30% of capacity is slashed across China's most bloated state industries, perhaps 3m workers will lose their jobs over the next three years.
根據一項評估,如果中國那些過度膨脹的國有工業30%的生產力被削減,那麼在未來三年裡將會有三百萬的工人失業。
But thanks largely to the private sector, the country created 64m jobs between 2011 and 2015, with more than 13m emerging in the past year alone.
幸好私營企業在2011年至2015年期間為中國創造了六千四百萬的工作崗位,僅去年一年就增加了一千三百萬。
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