中英双语：中国购物中心建设方兴未艾.docxVIP

Ruan Zhaoxia cannot recall seeing a single luxury brand in China’s inland city of Wuhan when she first moved there 14 years ago. 阮朝霞记得，14年前她刚搬到中国内地城市武汉时，在那里连一个奢侈品牌都没看到。 But by last year Wuhan had so many brand-packed shopping malls that it ranked first in the world for shopping mall completion, with almost 1m square metres of malls. 但到去年，武汉已拥有了如此多品牌林立的购物中心，以接近100万平方米的面积，在购物中心完工面积上居于世界首位。 The mainland shopping mall market continues to boom, despite China’s economic slowdown and the woes of the property market. Though visitors to big Chinese cities are often struck by the sheer number of luxury malls — and the paucity of customers shopping in them — many smaller Chinese cities are still underserved with the kind of malls in which China’s increasingly demanding middle-class customers want to eat, shop and be entertained. 尽管中国经济放缓、房地产市场困难重重，但内地购物中心市场仍在蓬勃发展。虽然前往中国大城市的游客经常对奢侈购物中心的数量之多——以及购物中心内顾客之少——感到吃惊，但在许多中小城市，那种中国越来越挑剔的中产顾客想在其中吃饭、购物和娱乐的购物中心仍然供应不足。 Building increasingly appealing shopping malls — and enticing more and more people to spend money in them — is a key part of Beijing’s plan to boost consumption-driven growth in China, at a time when investment-led growth has faltered, leaving China with its slowest GDP growth in six years. 在投资引导型增长模式熄火、中国国内生产总值(GDP)增速降至6年来最低水平之际，兴建越来越有吸引力的购物中心，并吸引越来越多人前往购物中心消费，是北京方面推动中国实现消费驱动型增长计划的一个关键部分。 According to a recent report by CBRE, the real estate consultancy, 44 per cent of all global shopping market completions last year were in China, and nine out of the top 10 top cities for mall space under construction were in China too. Wuhan, Chengdu and Beijing, China’s top three cities, contributed half of new completions in China last year, and most Wuhan malls are more than 80 per cent occupied, in contrast with many others in China which find it tough to get tenants, CBRE says. 根据房地产咨询公司世邦魏理仕(CBRE)不久前的一份报告，中国占去年全球购物中心完工总面积的44%，在建购物中心面积最大的十个城市有九个在中国。世邦魏理仕表示，中国购物中心完工面积最大的三个城市——武汉、成都和北京，贡献了去年中国新增购物中心完工面积的一半，武汉大多数购物中心的商家入驻率都超过了80%，与中国其