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标题：China's U.S. Shopping List Shorter This Year
来源: 福布斯
原文链接:[url=http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/06/17/china-us-tradetalks-markets-econ-cx_jc_0617markets02.html]http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/06/17/china-us-tradetalks-markets-econ-cx_jc_0617markets02.html[/url]
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写在前面的话：
第四期中美战略经济对话今天正式开始，王岐山副总理已经到达美国。按照这篇翻译的文章里说所，中国今年赴美贸易大规模采购是为了给这次会议营造气氛。可是我又想，为什么美国不来点营造气氛的举动呢？不知怎的，我想起了蔺相如的故事，绳池之宴，秦王说：：“寡人窃闻赵王好音，请奏瑟。”情形是多么相似，只是没有了那以死抗争、要秦王击鲊的义士。
好了，不说这些题外话了。谈谈这个采购清单吧，清单的重点是从快要倒闭的福特和通用采购了占总额15%的汽车。首先谈谈这一招的高明之处，汽车工人可以说是美国产业界最为庞大的工人组织之一，而且由于国内企业的不争气，也是少数不和我们国家工人争夺饭碗的群体之一。这两家公司都濒临倒闭，据我所知通用公司欠的养老金超过了它的市值。在他们的危急关头，给一笔巨额的救命订单，无疑可以争取他们作为朋友，成为在那里反对“中国威胁论”的重要棋子。
再谈谈我们的无奈之举，这两家公司生产的汽车我们的合资公司基本上都能造的出来，而且在提倡节能减排的国内，向来以高能耗而著称的美国汽车绝不是什么好选择。但与中美关系的重要性来说，这笔钱又不值一提，所以我还是赞成这笔订单的。
明明是亏本的买卖还要去做，谁让我们有求于人呢？我在翻译文章是，激动地手都在发抖？明明我们的华为中兴很好，还要去买朗讯的（中国移动选择的3G技术是TD-SCDMA，这种标准的设备只有中国企业产，这次采购买美国的设备都是维护2G手机技术的，决不是必需品）；华三的路由器一般够用了，却也要采购思科的？只是因为我们要为中美贸易逆差负责——尽管这种逆差是美国经济学家提倡的自由贸易产生的。
为了表达我的愤怒，我把“美国”都翻译成了“米国”。请大家不要责怪政府，因为这样做是有道理的，可以压低美国国内“中国威胁论的声音”。我们现在还是在发展阶段，需要团结一切可以团结的力量。
这篇文章的最后一段充分展现了美国人的自信：“它是中国第二大产品出口地，是她第六大进口方，也是她的第三大技术提供者。”
但是我坚信，总有一天我们会真真正正独立自主，让全世界都为中国所折服！
中国加油！
这才是原文和翻译：
China's U.S. Shopping List Shorter This Year
HONG KONG -
In its latest annual shopping trip to the United States, China signed agreements worth nearly $14 billion late Monday for goods and equipment from U.S. companies.
The buying spree, part of Beijing's effort to reduce its record high-trade surplus with the United States, contributed to an atmosphere of good will during the weeklong conference between top officials from both countries known as the Strategic Economic Dialogue, an initiative launched by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in 2006. The latest round of talks is the last under the current American administration.
But the sum total of the purchase contracts amounts to less than half of what the annual Chinese trade delegation bought a year ago, when it closed a total of 138 deals from its visits to 25 cities in 24 states, spending $32.6 billion. The sharp decline possibly signals cooling Chinese interest in bulk purchases of U.S. goods via official missions, at a time when the focus of attention of both governments is shifting from the issue of revaluating China's currency, the yuan, to liberalizing the investment environment. There may be an announcement later in the week of talks aiming to conclude a bilateral investment treaty.
The latest shopping delegation consists of 120 top Chinese executives, who have signed 71 contracts and agreements with their U.S. counterparts totaling $13.6 billion. Their visit entailed less extensive geographical coverage than last year, just 14 cities in 11 states. China's Ministry of Commerce said agreements were signed in Washington, D.C., and St. Louis late Monday to buy goods in 11 categories, including soybeans (which feature prominently each year), energy-saving electric appliances, chemical products, aircraft propellers, mechanical equipment, telecom and Internet equipment, as well as semiconductors and electronic machinery. The Chinese government highlighted the import of 81,500 American-made vehicles as a result of these contracts.
While neither government provided specifics of the deals signed, the two biggest American automakers stand to benefit. Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) announced concurrently that it plans to sell more than 30,000 North American-built vehicles to China beginning in 2009, as well as transmission components and other parts worth a total of more than $800 million. General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) cited an even bigger figure, with sale of auto parts and exports of American-made vehicles to China in the region of $1 billion, as confirmed by company Vice President Ken Cole, speaking to Reuters.
Monday's agreements took a little air out of the ballooning U.S. trade deficit with China, which hit a record $256.2 billion in 2007. In the first five months of the year, bilateral trade grew by 13.3% year on year, to $130.47 billion, weighing heavily in China's favor. China had 9.1% growth in its exports to the United States, reaching $95.51 billion in value; it imported $34.96 billion in U.S. goods and services, but that figure expanded at a swifter 26.3% pace.
The United States is now China's second-largest trade partner, after the EU. It is China's second-largest export market, as well as its sixth-largest source of imports and third-largest supplier of technology.
中国今年在美采购缩减
香港-截止到周一，在最新一期赴美采购中，中国与美国公司签署了采购价值接近140亿美元货物和仪器的协议。
这种疯狂采购，是中国为缩减美国与她贸易逆差的所做的部分努力，也为两国高层会议营造良好的气氛，这个持续一周的会议就是人们所知的战略经济对话，它由美国财政部长在2006年提议举办。最新一轮对话是美国当前内阁最后一次参与了。
但是这次购买合同的总额不及去年中国贸易代表团采购额的一半，那次她访问了24个州的25座城市，购买了138种商品。这一明显的下降可能反映了中国通过官方大量购买美国货物兴趣的下降，同时双方政府把关注的焦点从重估中国货币——人民币的价值转移到开放投资环境。在本周会议讨论双边投资协定后，可能会发布相关声明。
最新的采购代表团由120名中国顶级企业高管组成，他们与米国同行签署了71项协议共价值136亿美元。他们没有拜访去年那么多地方，只去了11个州的14座城市。中国商务部说将于下周一在华盛顿和圣路易斯签署协议，将会购买11类货物，包括黄豆（每年都会采购）、节能电器、飞机发动机、机械设备、电信和互联网设备，以及半导体和电子设备。中国政府还高调宣布会按照协议购买81500辆米国产汽车。
虽然双方政府都没有透露签约的具体细节，但是米国两个最大的汽车制造商将会获益。福特汽车即时宣布它计划在从2009年起多卖30000辆北美产汽车到中国，加上变速器和其他部件，这份合同价值8亿美元。通用汽车获得了一个更大的订单，将出口价值10亿美元的汽车配件及米国造汽车到中国，公司副总裁Ken Cole告诉路透社说。
星期一的协议稍许减小了米国对中国的贸易逆差，这一逆差额在2007年达到2562亿美元。在今年前五个月，双边贸易额同比增长13.3%，达到1304.7亿美元，受到中国的高度重视。中国对米国的出口增长了9.1%，达到955.1亿美元；她从米国进口价值329.6亿美元的商品和服务，这一数值增长了23.6%。
米国现在是中国的第二大贸易伙伴，仅次于欧盟。它是中国第二大产品出口地，是她第六大进口方，也是她的第三大技术提供商。 |
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