中国企业扎根底特律

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Bill Vlasic, 中国企业扎根底特律. 纽约时报中文网, May 13, 2013
http://cn.nytimes.com/business/20130513/13chinaauto/

, which is translated from

Bill Vlasic, Chinese Creating New Auto Niche Within Detroit; Search for experience; After start with parts, companies set up US Operations. New York Times, May 13, 2013 (front page).

(a) Excerpt in the window of print: China's auto parts are relatively small, but Detroit is bracing for that to change.

(b) Quote:

"Last year, China exported about $13 billion in automotive goods to the United States — tires, wheels and radios that are sold as replacement parts — according to AlixPartners, a consulting firm. But many Chinese suppliers are pursuing direct business with the Detroit car companies, which now get many of their most common parts from low-wage nations like Mexico.

"Only about 4 percent of Chinese-made light vehicles are exported now, mostly to countries in Africa and the Middle East.

(c) My comment:
(i) I often think Americans are hyping China's capabilities. 杯弓蛇影.
(ii) The Serbian / Croatian/ Slovenian surname Vlasic means "Vlah ‘Wallachian’, ‘Romanian.’"

* Vlachs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlachs
(English variations of the name include Wallachians, Walla, Wlachs, Wallachs, Vlahs, Olahs or Ulahs; section 1 Etymology)

(iii) "The American industry’s overall resurgence has drawn a growing Chinese population to Detroit, with Chinese-owned suppliers bringing executives from their country and American automakers adding new talent. About 50,000 Chinese, many of them engineers and other professionals who work at General Motors and the Ford Motor Company, live in the metropolitan area."

Assuming on average one worker has four dependents, 50,000 Chinese--of course there must be immigrants who or whose ancestors came long ago, like around 1949--have 10,000 working adults, not many will be engineers ( chefs, etc).

(iv) The report quotes an executive of "Brilliance Auto, an industrial giant with about 500,000 employees in the city of Shenyang," as saying, "We have been exporting our parts to North America for 15 years for the aftermarket," referring to retail sales of replacement parts."
* 华晨中国汽车控股有限公司
* aftermarket (n):
"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aftermarket
(v) Frank Chiu opened a Chinese grocery store in Canton, Michigan which features Chinese delicacies like chicken feet, snow fungus and pork uterus.
* Canton, Michigan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton,_Michigan
(in Wayne county [whose county seat is Detroit])
* The NYT translates snow fungus and pork uterus as 银耳 and 猪下水, respectively.
* Tremella fuciformis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremella_fuciformis
(Tremella fuciformis has been given the common names snow fungus, silver ear fungus or white jelly mushroom)
* We do not eat pig uterus in Taiwan.
* 猪下水
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8C%AA%E4%B8%8B%E6%B0%B4
* 下水 is a Chinese, not Japanese (as some in Taiwan assert), term.

もつ
http://www.weblio.jp/content/OFFAL
("もつとは、鳥獣肉の臓物（内臓）のこと。ホルモン、畜産副生物、内臓肉とも呼ばれている。中国語では「下水」という。韓国語ではコプチャンなど、また欧米では「バラエティミート」「ファンシーミート」と呼ばれる")