遼寧省一季度經濟出現負增長

　　The economic growth rate of Liaoning in China’sstruggling north-east sank below zero in the firstquarter, according to the local statistics bureau,making it the first province to register negativegrowth in seven years thanks to a severe downturnin China’s energy and heavy industry sectors.

　　據處所統計局新聞，因為中國的能源和重產業行業緊張闌珊，遼寧省一季度經濟增速跌至零下，成為7年來首個湧現負增加的省分。遼寧省處於中國處境艱苦的東北地域。

　　China’s national growth clocked in at an annual rateof 6.7 per cent in the first quarter, but that masks sharp discrepancies between provincesreliant on heavy industry, mining or oil and the southern and eastern regions with morediversified economies.

　　中國一季度天下經濟增速到達6.7%，但這掩飾了那些依附重產業、采礦或煤油的省分，與經濟較為多樣化的華南、華東地域省分之間的偉大差別。

　　Liaoning, one of two provinces yet to report gross domestic product figures for the firstquarter, was expected to perform poorly. The downturn in coal and oil prices has hit hard inthe north-east, formerly known as Manchuria. The largest economy among the threenortheastern provinces, Liaoning boasts the manufacturing and high-tech city of Dalian but isalso home to large and struggling steel mills.

　　今朝仍有兩個省分未頒布一季度海內臨盆總值(GDP)數據，個中一個便是遼寧省，估計其表示欠安。煤炭和煤油價錢的低迷對東北地域造成重創。作為東三省最大經濟體，遼寧以其制作業和高科技都會大連而驕傲，但遼寧也是浩瀚墮入逆境的大型鋼廠的大本營。

　　Chinese newspaper 21st Century Business Herald reported this week that the province wouldbook a 1.3 per cent contraction in real GDP for the quarter, a figure subsequently integratedinto figures published by data provider CEIC. A Liaoning statistics bureau official confirmedthat the figure was “basically correct” when contacted by the Financial Times but said the datahad not yet been published, pending approval from senior provincial officials.

　　依據《21世紀經濟報導》(21st Century Business Herald)本周報導，遼寧省一季度現實GDP估計將壓縮1.3%，隨後數據供給商CEIC宣布的綜合數據中也采取了這一數字。遼寧統計局一位官員向英國《金融時報》證明，這一數字“根本準確”，但表現該數據還沒有頒布，另有待省內高層官員同意。

　　Liaoning’s performance is politically significant because Chinese premier Li Keqiang is affiliatedwith an economic revival in the rust belt north-east after a severe downturn following reformsto state-owned heavy industry in the late 1990s. His policy, which included state-fundedhousing projects designed to replace decrepit neighbourhoods of SOE worker housing, fuelleda construction boom but did not fundamentally alter the region’s reliance on traditionalindustries.

　　遼寧省的經濟表示之以是具備龐大政治意義，是由於中國總理李克強與東北“銹帶”地域的經濟蘇醒有關。上世紀90年月末，東北地域在國有重產業改造後閱歷了緊張闌珊。李克強的政策包含推出國度贊助的住房項目，以代替國企員工棲身的老舊住民區，他的政策推進了修建業成長，但並無從基本上轉變該地域對傳統家當的依附。