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Fewer Employees Moved to China in 2013 2013年外国来华雇员人数减少 The heady days of people rushing to China in search of opportunity are waning. 人们争相涌入中国寻求机遇的日子正渐渐远去。 At least one relocation firm has found that more people moved from China to the U.S. last year than the other way around, the first time this has happened since St. Louis-based UniGroup Relocation, which moves more than 260, 000 families yearly, started compiling this data in 2006. Meanwhile, the move of household goods into China tracked by another relocation firm, Asian Tigers Mobility, fell 10% in 2013, the largest drop in more than a decade. 总部位于圣路易斯的搬家公司UniGroup Relocation每年为超过26万个家庭提供搬家服务。该公司发现，去年从中国迁入美国的人数多于美国迁入中国的人数，这是公司自2006年统计该数据以来首次出现这一情况。与此同时，根据另一家搬家公司Asian Tigers Mobility记录的数据，2013年搬入中国的家庭用品总量下降了10%，创下了十多年来的最大降幅。 The shift comes as Chinas economy grows at its slowest pace in more than 20 years, labor costs rise and pollution soars. Foreign companies also worry about intellectual property issues and social unrest in the worlds second-largest economy. 这一转变发生在中国这一世界第二大经济体增速跌至20多年来最低点、劳动成本上升以及污染日益恶化的背景之下。中国的知识产权问题以及社会不稳定因素也令外国企业感到担忧。 China has lost some of its luster, said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moodys Analytics. Moodys Analytics首席经济学家赞迪(Mark Zandi)称，中国的光彩已不如以往。 UniGroups migration data -- which cover only the firms clients, mainly corporate employees -- is the latest indicator that China hasnt panned out as expected for some companies. UniGroup的搬迁数据再次表明，中国并非如一些公司所预期的那样美好。该数据仅涵盖UniGroup客户，其中大多为企业员工。 Multinationals have looked to China in recent years as Western economies have slowed. But as the U.S. economy starts to recover, some of those companies are now shedding staff in China. 近年来西方经济体增速放缓使得一些跨国企业转向中国寻求发展机会。但随着美国经济开始复苏，其中一些企业目前已着手裁减在华员工数量。 Hewlett-Packard Co. is laying off a small percentage of its workforce in the country, part of a global restructuring, The Wall Street Journal reported in December. Meanwhile, Johnson Johnson is cutting its pharmaceutical staff by an undisclosed amount ev