A sobering statistic emerged this morning in the form of figures for Wuhan’s economic activity during the first quarter. The worse-than-feared 40.5 percent drop in GDP over the same period last year comes as another forewarning to virus epicentres elsewhere.
今天上午，武汉第一季度经济活动数据出现了一项发人深省的统计数据。 GDP 同比下降 40.5%，超出预期，这是对其他地区病毒震中的另一个预警。
China breaks down its GPD figures by primary, secondary and tertiary industries. In the primary sector, largely the production of raw materials, Wuhan’s GDP fell by 36.4 percent, while the drop was 37.7 percent for the tertiary sector, namely the supply of services.
中国按第一、第二和第三产业细分GDP数据。在主要是原材料生产的第一产业中，武汉GDP下降36.4%，而第三产业，即服务业，下降37.7%。
However, the worst news came, as expected, in the secondary sector that largely comprises manufacturing. Herein, Wuhan’s performance was down 45.4 percent on the first quarter of last year, reports The Paper.
然而，正如预期的那样，最坏的消息出现在主要由制造业组成的第二产业。其中，武汉市一季度业绩较去年下降45.4%。
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Wuhan is well known in China as a hub of manufacturing, particularly in the iron, steel and automotive sectors. It is home to Dongfeng Motors that is one of the “Big Four” of Chinese automakers, together with Changan Automobile, the FAW Group, and SAIC Motor. Dongfeng is also the joint venture partner in China for the French brands Peugeot-Citroën.
武汉在中国是众所周知的制造业中心，特别是在钢铁和汽车行业。这里是与长安汽车、一汽集团、上汽集团并列的中国汽车“四大”之一的东风汽车的所在地。东风汽车还是法国品牌标致雪铁龙在中国的合资伙伴。
Those industries aside, and just as with Nanjing, in recent years there has been a big push for a cleaner, high-tech economy for Wuhan. Indeed, the city now touts itself as China’s “Optics Valley”. Home to the world’s largest fiber optics production, Wuhan is also a key driver in weaning China’s dependence on overseas suppliers of silicon chips.
抛开这些行业不谈，就像南京一样，近年来武汉大力推动清洁、高科技经济的发展。事实上，这座城市现在标榜自己是中国的“光谷”。武汉是全球最大的光纤生产基地，也是中国摆脱对海外硅芯片供应商依赖的关键推动者。
Such cleaner, modern industries were the least to suffer during Wuhan’s lockdown. Internet and related sectors were relatively less affected, with information transmission, software and information technology services down 25.4 percent.
在武汉封城期间，这些更清洁、现代化的产业受到的影响最小。互联网及相关行业受影响较小，其中信息传输、软件和信息技术服务业下降25.4%。
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In other sectors, Wuhan’s total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, together with the associated supply chain, was down 45.9 percent. Therein, the output of vegetables and aquatic products decreased by 24.2 and 54.9 percent respectively.
其他行业中，武汉市农林牧渔业及相关供应链总产值下降45.9%。其中，蔬菜、水产品产量分别下降24.2%和54.9%。
In the first quarter, fixed asset investment in Wuhan fell 81.6 percent year on year. In terms of sub sectors therein, industrial investment, infrastructure investment and real estate development investment decreased by 88.4, 84.1 and 75.7 percent respectively, while private investment dropped 84.6 percent.
一季度，武汉市固定资产投资同比下降81.6%。分行业看，工业投资、基础设施投资、房地产开发投资分别下降88.4%、84.1%和75.7%，民间投资下降84.6%。
In all the doom and gloom, there were at least two spots of growth. Somewhat at odds with each other were the 341.2 percent growth recorded by health industries related to epidemic prevention, which is to be expected, and the 9.2 percent growth for quarter 1, 2020, displayed by Wuhan’s tobacco industry.
在所有的厄运和阴郁之中，至少有两个增长点。与防疫相关的健康产业增长341.2%，符合预期，与武汉烟草行业2020年第一季度9.2%的增长有些矛盾。
