对于像英国这样的国家来说,应该把这种惊人的发展视为一种机会,而不是威胁。中国的成功为全球市场带来了利益。例如,去年在中国货物出口量增长32%的同时,其量增加了41%。在2002 到2003 年间,从威尔士到中国的出口量几乎翻了一番。在英国投资的中国公司已逾250 家,而英国又是欧盟在中国投资最多的国家,投资额达200 亿 51
美元。
Rather like China, the enlargement of the European Union is an opportunity and a challenge for Welsh businesses, not a threat. Ten new countries join next month, creating a single market of some 450 million consumers, bigger and richer than the two biggest economies in the world, the USA and Japan combined.
与中国相同,欧盟的扩大对于威尔士的企业来说与其说是威胁不如说是机遇与挑战并重。下个月又将有十个国家加入欧盟,共同组成一个拥有4 亿5 千万消费者的市场,这比世界上排名前两位的经济大国美国和日本加在一起更大,更富有。
A huge change has taken place over the last 35 years in the Welsh economy. 100,000 Welsh coalminers in the 1960s has been reduced to less than a thousand today, and instead of 90,000 steelworkers there are now 7,500.
在过去的35 年间,威尔士的经济发生了重大的变化。二十世纪六十年代煤矿工人的人口为10 万人,而今天已降到不足1000 人。原先9 万名钢铁工人,如今也已减至7500 人。
More people - 70,000 - are employed in foreign based companies in Wales. There are now some four hundred international companies operating in Wales. They include global brands like Ford, Sony, Sharp, General Electric, Toyota, International Rectifier, Johnson and Johnson, and Bayer.
在威尔士,更多的人在为总部在国外的公司工作,有七万人之多。目前在威尔士经营的国际性公司大约有四百家,其中不乏全球知名的公司,例如福特、索尼、夏普、通用电气、丰田、国际整流器公司,强生以及拜尔。
Recently, there has been a high level of investment in the aerospace, automotive and plastics industries, as well as increases in employment and in the education and health sectors.
近来,对航空、汽车、塑料等行业的投资持续增加,同时就业率也有所提高,对教育和保健领域的投资也有所增加。
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