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沃尔沃放下心头大石作者: 选自英国金融时报译者: 爱尔兰都柏林大学 赖小琪When Volvo Cars was acquired by Geely of China last year, there was nervousness about what the deal would mean for the Swedish car industry.去年沃尔沃汽车被中国的吉利汽车收购时, 瑞典人都在担扰这此的交易对瑞典的汽车行业将会造成什么样的影响. A year on, it is hard to find anyone in Sweden with a bad word to say about the new Chinese owners. Volvo announced in March that it planned to hire up to 1,200 workers in Sweden and Belgium, allaying fears that Geely would shift jobs to China.一年以来, 端典人似乎很难找到对沃尔沃的中国新主人的不满. 沃尔沃在三月份宣告计划在瑞典和比利时招聘最多达1200名员工, 扫清了瑞典对吉利将把工作岗位转移到中国的疑惧. Most of the recruits will be engineers in Volvo’s home city of Gothenburg, indicating that, while Geely has ambitious plans for Chinese production, most development work will remain in Europe. “So far, they’ve done everything they said they were going to do,” says Aleksandar Zuza, an industry analyst at IF Metall, the main Swedish car workers’ union. Suppliers are also pleased with the stability brought by Geely after uncertainty when Volvo was a struggling subsidiary of Ford, the US carmaker.绝大多数沃尔沃招聘的员工都是其所在地哥德堡的工程师, 这意味着, 尽管吉利有志于在中国发展生产, 大多数的研发工作将会继续留在欧洲. “至今为止, 他们已经履行了他们曾经的诺言,” 瑞典主要的汽车行业工会IF Metall的产业分析师亚历山大?祖扎表示. 供应商也对吉利收购沃尔沃后维持的经营稳定性感到满意, 尽管此前沃尔沃作为美国汽车制造商福特旗下的子公司时举步维艰, 充满不确定性.Some Swedish suppliers are eyeing opportunities to follow their customer into the Chinese market. “It is very clear Volvo needs western suppliers to help support its expansion in China,” says Sven?ke Berglie, head of FKG, the trade organisation for Swedish car parts makers.一些瑞典的供应商正在瞄准机会, 跟随它们的客户, 即沃尔沃, 进入中国市场. “很明显, 沃尔沃需要西方的供应商来帮助其在中国市场的扩张.” 瑞典汽车零部件制造商行业组织FKG会长斯万诺克?伯格里说For Volvo managers, there were some initial tensions when the group’s traditional focus on safety and energy efficiency jarred with Geely’s desire to make bigger, more luxurious cars.沃尔沃的管理者们起初和吉利方面有些冲突, 主要是因为沃尔沃一直以来都注重汽车的安全性和节能性, 而这与吉利希望生产更大更豪华的汽车的想法不一. However, Li Shufu, Geely chairman, told the Financial Times that those disagreements had been re