经济学人153:华为,有料!

 　　Huawei

　　华为

　　Interesting reading

　　有料

　　A Chinese industrial champion opens up a bit on its way to world domination

　　一家中国工业引领者走向全球的道路上，撩开了一点自己的面纱

　　Apr 20th 2011 | HONG KONG | from the print edition

　　ANOTHER annual report sent out in the season when countless¹ companies worldwide are publishing them is at risk of being filed in the bin². Not so if the company is Huawei and the report is intended to make a company that reflects the best of China’s manufacturing prowess, while being a prime example of its secretiveness, seem normal.

　　值全球无数公司发表年度报告之季，又会有年报可能被扔进垃圾桶。不过，倘若是华为，倘若年报意在让这家显示中国最出色制造实力——而充当保密先锋——的公司看似平常，则另当其说。

　　The telecoms-equipment maker’s financial performance is impressive enough to make the report worth reading: revenues were 185 billion yuan ($27.4 billion), having grown by an annual average of 29% in the past four years. The growth rate for profits has been 56%. Having just passed Nokia and Siemens, Huawei looks on track to overtake Ericsson, the industry leader, this year.

　　这家电信设备制造商财务状况让人惊叹，报告值得一读：年营收1850亿元（274亿美元），四年年平均增长率达29%。利润增长率56%。刚刚赶超诺基亚和西门子的华为，似乎今年就有望追上行业老大爱立信。

　　But it faces some big impediments, perhaps the most important being the concerns of many governments, notably³ America’s and India’s, about a private company suspected of links to the security apparatus⁴ of a country said to be conducting sophisticated hacking⁵. Because of such worries, Huawei’s efforts to buy American companies have been blocked and some sales have been lost.

　　但华为也面临几重阻碍，其中最严重的，可能是以美国和印度为代表的许多政府都担心，一家私企可能与中国安全机构有牵连，而中国据称又在实施精密的黑客攻击。因为上述担忧，华为希望购买几家美国公司都遭到拒绝，一些生意也随之东流。

　　The report is clearly an effort by Huawei to lay such concerns to rest. For the first time, its directors are named and given brief biographies. The rags-to-riches story of Ren Zhengfei, the chief executive, is fleshed out: the son of rural schoolteachers, he left the army in 1983, founding the company with savings⁶ of 21,000 yuan four years later. None of the other directors is said to have military ties. However, a somewhat conspicuous⁷ omission⁸ from the profile of Sun Yafang, the chairman, is that—according to a report in the Financial Times—she used to work for the Ministry⁹ of State Security. That three other directors are (according to the Chinese press) closely related to Mr Ren is also omitted.

　　显然，华为在通过年报努力消除这些担忧。公司董事会成员的姓名简历首次刊出，也将首席执行官任正非白手起家的故事栩栩道来：他生于一个农村教师之家，1983年退伍，四年后用21,000元积蓄创建公司。没有证据表明董事会其他成员与军队有联系。然而，董事长孙亚芳的简历却存在明显疏漏：据《金融时报》报道称，她曾在国家安全部任职。（据中国媒体称）与任正非关系紧密的其他三名董事会成员同样没有提及。

　　The report is a bit more forthcoming on the financial help Huawei gets from the state: plentiful¹⁰ cheap loans, some at interest rates of less than 1.7%, and a handy chunk¹¹ of research grants. The audit¹² of the firm’s accounts, by KPMG Huazhen, was unqualified, though the auditor¹³ noted¹⁴ that they did not contain all the information needed to meet international accounting¹⁵ standards for a full company report.

　　年报中更多看到的，是华为从政府得到的经济帮助：大量廉价贷款，有些利率不足1.7%，以及大量研究经费。毕马威华振为华为账目做出的审计并不合格，尽管审计员指出，这并不包含完整公司报告按国际会计标准所应有的全部信息。

　　Huawei still has some way to go before it satisfies the curiosity of foreign governments, competitors and investors¹⁶. Even so, the information given in this year’s annual report represents a leap forward in openness for the company and for Chinese industry as a whole. In recent years Huawei has decisively dispelled¹⁷ any doubts that it can provide state-of-the-art communications equipment. The job of communicating about itself remains¹⁸ a work in progress.

　　华为要想消除外国政府、竞争者和投资商的疑虑，仍有待努力。即便如此，今年年报中披露的信息对公司、对中国工业整体而言，已经大有进步。近年来，华为已决然打消了外界的怀疑，证明自己可以提供顶尖水准的电信设施。而公司自己和外界的交流呢，仍在进行之中。

1 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

2 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

3 notably   

adv.值得注意地，显著地，尤其地，特别地

参考例句：

• Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。
• A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小，一头银发，每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。

4 apparatus   

n.装置，器械；器具，设备

参考例句：

• The school's audio apparatus includes films and records.学校的视听设备包括放映机和录音机。
• They had a very refined apparatus.他们有一套非常精良的设备。

5 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

6 savings   

n.存款，储蓄

参考例句：

• I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假，那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
• By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时，他的存款已全部用完。

7 conspicuous   

adj.明眼的，惹人注目的；炫耀的，摆阔气的

参考例句：

• It is conspicuous that smoking is harmful to health.很明显，抽烟对健康有害。
• Its colouring makes it highly conspicuous.它的色彩使它非常惹人注目。

8 omission   

n.省略，删节；遗漏或省略的事物，冗长

参考例句：

• The omission of the girls was unfair.把女孩排除在外是不公平的。
• The omission of this chapter from the third edition was a gross oversight.第三版漏印这一章是个大疏忽。

9 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

10 plentiful   

adj.富裕的，丰富的

参考例句：

• Their family has a plentiful harvest this year.他们家今年又丰收了。
• Rainfall is plentiful in the area.这个地区雨量充足。

11 chunk   

n.厚片，大块，相当大的部分（数量）

参考例句：

• They had to be careful of floating chunks of ice.他们必须当心大块浮冰。
• The company owns a chunk of farmland near Gatwick Airport.该公司拥有盖特威克机场周边的大片农田。

12 audit   

v.审计；查帐；核对；旁听

参考例句：

• Each year they audit our accounts and certify them as being true and fair.他们每年对我们进行账务审核，以确保其真实无误。
• As usual,the yearly audit will take place in December.跟往常一样，年度审计将在十二月份进行。

13 auditor   

n.审计员，旁听着

参考例句：

• The auditor was required to produce his working papers.那个审计员被要求提供其工作底稿。
• The auditor examines the accounts of all county officers and departments.审计员查对所有县官员及各部门的帐目。

14 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

15 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

16 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

17 dispelled   

v.驱散，赶跑( dispel的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• His speech dispelled any fears about his health. 他的发言消除了人们对他身体健康的担心。
• The sun soon dispelled the thick fog. 太阳很快驱散了浓雾。 来自《简明英汉词典》

18 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。