自考外刊经贸知识选读第二课笔记.docVIP

Lesson 2 The curtain(窗帘, 门帘) goes up 竹幕卷起 Peking（北京的旧称，现在称Beijing） permits foreign investment all along its coastline（海岸线）--- creating differing rules and added confusion（混乱, 混淆） By Mary Lee in Beijing 中国政府允许外国在沿海投资----从而差生了不同的法则并引起困惑---玛丽`李写于北京 A clearly confident（自信的, 确信的） China has rolled up a large section of its bamboo （竹子）curtain, declared itself “open to the outside world” and hung signs on nearly all its cities inviting foreign investors to come and do serious business. 满怀信心地中国卷起大部分竹幕，向世界宣布“对外开放”，几乎所有的城市都张挂起邀请外商来投资作正当生意的招牌。 The four special economic zones (SEZs) in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, 14 coastal（海岸的, 沿海的） cities (all former（从前的, 以前的） treaty ports（港口）) and Hainan island (19 “open” areas in all) have specifically（特定的, 明确的） designed（有计划的） tax and other incentives（激励的） for the foreign investor. But every provincial（省的） capital is doing its best to attract foreign investment. 广东省和福建省的4个经济特区、14个沿海开放城市（都是以前的通商口岸）和海南岛（总共十九个“开放”区）为外国投资者制定了税收和其他方面的鼓励政策。每一个省会都在尽力吸引外资。 The foundation（基础） for all this was assembled（装配,组合） in piecemeal form, beginning in mid—1979 with the State Council’s decision to set up four SEZs in the south. Then a joint-venture law was published for the first time (albeit one full of holes), quickly followed by procedures for “compensation trade” --- both or which were designed to attract foreign investment to these four zones. The following year, a tax law for joint ventures was promulgated. 所有这一切的基础是从1979年中期国务院决定在南方建立4个经济特区开始，尔后逐步形成的。此后首次出台一项合资企业法（尽管充满漏洞），继之就是“补偿贸易”程序----两者都是为吸引外资到这4个经济特区而制定的。第二年合资企业税法颁布实施。 But even as businessmen battled with bureaucracy in an effort to fulfil their hopes of doing business with a potential market of 1 billon people, Chinese leaders were growing impatient with the rate of progress in the showpiece SEZ—Shenzhen. 尽管商人们努力与拥有10亿人口的潜在市场做生意而与官僚主义作斗争，但中国领导人对于深圳----这个经济特区的典范----前进的步伐变得越来越不耐烦了。 In April 1984, after the country’s top leaders had visited the Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Xiamen SEZs, the stat