福特汽车在印度投资建厂一托福阅读机经背景.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料福特汽车在印度投资建厂一托福阅读机经背景 U.S. car maker Ford will invest nearly $1 billion to establish a new automobile plant in India. Ford is the latest in a series of foreign automakers that are seeking to take advantage of one of the world’s fastest growing passenger car markets. 美国福特汽车制造公司将投资近10亿美元，在印度建一个新的汽车制造厂。像其他汽车公司一样，福特也想在印度的汽车市场上占有一席之地。 Ford’s proposed new plant in the western state of Gujarat is expected to produce about 240,000 vehicles every year and employ about 5,000 people. It is expected to be open by 2014. 福特准备在印度西部古加拉特邦兴建汽车厂，预计2014年投产。到时候，工厂将雇用大约5千人，每年的产量估计能有24万辆。 This will be the company’s second plant in India. It already has one in the southern city of Chennai, where capacity is also being expanded. 那将是福特公司在印度成立的第二个汽车制造厂。之前，福特已经在印度南部的金奈建造了一个汽车制造厂，那个厂目前也在扩建。 Ford is not the only automaker to be expanding production facilities in India. Japanese carmaker Toyota announced this week that it will invest $220 million to boost its production. 不仅福特，日本的丰田公司这个星期也宣布说，将投资两亿两千万美元，增加该公司在印度的汽车产量。 The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers estimates that automakers will invest more than $15 billion over the next two to three years in India with an eye to capturing a larger share of the second fastest growing market in the world. 印度汽车制造厂商协会估计，各家汽车公司今后两三年内将斥资150亿美元，瞄准了印度这个全球第二大新兴市场。 The growth is happening as a rapidly expanding economy propels millions into the middle class. Car sales rose by nearly 30 per cent last year. But despite the burgeoning sales, the number of cars in India compared to the billion plus population is still very low. 印度去年的汽车销售上升了30%，迅速发展的经济使很多人成为中产阶级。即便是这么高的增长速度，按照总数来算，印度人均拥有车辆的比例还是很低，也就是说，还大有发展和销售的空间。 “If you look at the penetration of the Indian market, the Indian penetration is about 10 cars to a 1,000 people, noted Vishnu Mathur, who heads the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers. In some of the developed countries like U.S. and Europe it is as high as 500. So there is a huge, very high headroom that is available in