2017考研英語拓展閱讀：中國是機器人最大市場

考研英語來源：新東方網整理 2016-07-14　

China has held the title of world’s largest robot market for three consecutive years, from2013 through 2015. Also in 2015, the sales of robots for industrial use in China exceeded the same sales number for Europe, according to a recent report from thepaper.cn.

自2013年到2015年，中國連續三年蟬聯世界最大機器人市場桂冠。據thepaper.cn最近的一份報道，2015年，中國工業用途機器人銷量超過了歐洲。

The same report states that the total number of robots sold in 2015 exceeded 68,000, which is a 30.3 percent rise from 2014.

相同的報告聲明，2015年機器人銷售總量超過6800個，同比2014年上漲30.3%。

The report was issued by Song Xiaogang, secretary general of the China Robot Industry Alliance, during the 2016 China International Robot Show (CIROS) that opened on Wednesday in Shanghai.

在上海周三舉行的2016年中國國際機器人展上，該報告由中國機器人產業聯盟秘書長宋曉剛發出。

Specifically, some 36.8 percent of robots sold were deployed in the automobile industry.While the robots working with car manufacturers are mostly foreign brands, domestically-made robots were most frequently used in the metal product manufacturing industry, the report said. The most popular models on the Chinese market are multi-joint robots, with a growing percentage of domestic brands winning larger shares of the market.

具體地說，36.8%的售出機器人分布在汽車領域。報告稱，盡管和汽車制造商工作的機器人大部分是國外品牌，但是國內制造的機器人更頻繁地被用于金屬產品制造業。中國市場上最流行的模型是多關節機器人，國產品牌的銷量增長比獲得了更大的市場份額。

“Even the high-end industry is beginning to provide low-end products, indicating the massive popularity of robots in today’s market. However, we must prevent this trend from growing more pronounced. Companies should be more innovative in their research, development and application of technologies. They must also avoid pointless competition,” said Wang Weiming, a senior official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, during a forum at CIROS.

在中國國際機器人展的一個論壇期間，工業和信息技術部的一名高級官員王偉明說：“即便是高端產業也正在開始提供低端產品，這預示著機器人風靡今日市場。然而，我們必須阻止這種趨勢變得更加明顯。公司應該在科研方面更具創新性，發展和應用科技。他們必須避免無意義競爭。”

According to Wang, there are over 40 robot industrial parks across China and more than800 large-scale robot manufacturing companies.

據王說，中國有40多個機器人工業園，800多個大規模的機器人制造公司。

Wang Ruixiang, president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, said that the robot industry is a key parameter in judging a country’s mechanical industrialization. Chinabegan to list its robot industry as strategically important in 2014, thepaper.cn reported.

中國機械工業聯合會會長王瑞祥說，機器人工業上是判斷國家工業進程的重要參數。thepaper.cn 報道稱，2014年，中國開始把它的機器人工業視為戰略性重要產業。