2013年6月大学英语四级考试阅读精读文章10
2013年6月大学英语四级考试阅读精读文章10
China’s success owes more to its entrepreneurs than its bureaucrats. Time to bring them out of the shadows
中国的成功更多的归功于企业家而不是官僚。 是时候将这些企业家推到幕前了。
FEW would deny that China has been the economic superstar of recent years. Thanks to its relentless double-digit annual growth, it has become the world’s second-largest economy and in many ways the most dynamic. Less obvious is quite what the secret of this success has been. It is often vaguely attributed to “capitalism with Chinese characteristics”–typically taken to mean that bureaucrats with heavy, visible hands have worked much of the magic. That, naturally, is a view that China’s government is happy to encourage.
很少人会否定中国式近年来的经济超级明星。 多亏了持续的每年两位数的增长，让中国成为世界第二大经济体，在很多方面甚至是最强劲的。 中国成功的秘密亦并不显而易见。 经常含糊的归因于“中国特色的资本主义”——通常表示官僚沉重的有形的手施展魔法。 当然，这种看法是中国政府乐意去鼓励的。
But is it true? Of course, the state’s activity has been vast and important. It has been effective in eradicating physical and technological obstacles: physical, through the construction of roads, power plants and bridges; technical, by facilitating (through means fair and foul) the transfer of foreign intellectual property. Yet China’s vigour owes much to what has been happening from the bottom up as well as from the top down. Just as Germany has its mighty Mittelstand, the backbone of its economy, so China has a multitude of vigorous, (very) private entrepreneurs: a fast-growing thicket of bamboo capitalism.
但是这事真的吗？显然，国家的活力是巨大和重要的。 这在摧毁自然规律和技术障碍很有效果，通过建设道路，能源计划和桥梁；技术使得转移国外的知识产权变得便利（通过直接的和肮脏的方法）。 然而中国的元气更多归功于那些由下而上同样也是由上而下的发生的事情。 正像德国有很活跃的中小企业，作为他经济的脊梁，同样的罪过也有他多元的力量，（很多）私人企业家：快速增加的一群竹节资本主义。
These entrepreneurs often operate outside not only the powerful state-controlled companies, but outside the country’s laws. As a result, their significance cannot be well tracked by the state generated statistics that serve as a flawed window into China’s economy. But as our briefing shows, they are an astonishing force.
这些企业家经常管理超出范围，不仅超出政府管理下强大的公司，而且超出了国家的法律。 结果就是，通过国家生成的一组统计数据，他们的重要性不能很好的追踪到他们充当了中国经济的一个突破口。 但是，我们的简报显示，他们是一股令人惊讶的力量。
