Ford Announces Plans To Build Third Car Assembly Plant In China

福特将在中国建立第三工厂

Ford Motor Co. (F) Friday announced it plans to build a new car assembly plant here, its third such facility in China - part of a broader effort to overcome the company's auto maker's late start in China and catch up with key competitors.

福特汽车公司(Ford Motor Co.)周五宣布，它计划在中国重庆新建一座汽车装配厂，这将是该公司在中国的第三座汽车装配厂。此举是福特汽车克服其在中国市场后发劣势、追赶主要竞争对手步伐的一项努力。

The new plant, to be built with an investment of $490 million (3.34 billion yuan), will be run jointly with a Chinese partner and Japan's Mazda Motor Corp. (7261.TO), as are its two existing plants. It will produce Ford's next-generation Focus compact car and be capable initially of producing 150,000 vehicles a year when it opens in the city of Chongqing in southwestern China in 2012, the company said.

这一新厂的投资为4.9亿美元(合人民币33.4亿元)，它将由福特汽车与其中国合作伙伴及日本的马自达公司(Mazda Motor Corp. )联合运营，福特汽车在华的现有两座装配厂也采取这一运营模式。该公司称，这一设于重庆的装配厂将生产福特下一代福克斯(Focus)紧凑型轿车，2012年投产时的汽车年生产能力为15万辆。

The move would boost Ford's and Mazda's combined annual production capacity in China - long a comparatively weak link in Ford's global operations - to 600,000 vehicles from the current 447,000. Ford would not say how much of the combined capacity is its own and how much is Mazda's.

这将使福特和马自达在中国的合计年生产能力从目前的44.7万辆提高到60万辆。中国业务一直是福特汽车全球业务中相对薄弱的一环。福特没有说这一合计产能中有多少是它自己的，有多少属于马自达。

Despite the move, Ford has a lot more ground to make up for in order to catch up with key competitors in China - Volkswagen AG (VOW.XE), General Motors Co., Hyundai Motor Co. (HYMLY) and Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), which are the four top auto concerns in China's fast-growing auto market.

尽管做出了建第三座装配厂的决定，但要在中国市场赶上其主要竞争对手的步伐，福特还有许多工作要做。在中国迅速增长的汽车市场上，大众汽车 (Volkswagen AG)、通用汽车(General Motors Co.)、现代汽车(Hyundai Motor Co.)和丰田汽车公司(Toyota Motor Corp.)的市场占有率位居前四。

Toyota, for instance, is already capable of producing 800,000 vehicles a year and expects to lift that to more than one million in a few years.

以丰田汽车为例，该公司在中国已经具备了年产80万辆汽车的能力，它希望几年内能将在华汽车年生产能力提高到100万辆以上。

General Motors Co., which got an earlier start in China than Ford, has partnerships and joint ventures that give it total capacity of 1.29 million vehicles a year, including low-cost micro commercial vans.

通用汽车在中国市场的起步要早于福特汽车，算上合作伙伴与合资企业的产能，通用汽车在华汽车年生产能力为129万辆，其中包括低成本的微型商用货车。

Ford also has only a limited presence in China's marketplace. According to J.D. Power & Associates, Ford is the No. 12 auto brand in China in terms of sales. It's slightly bigger than Kia but smaller than Suzuki. It is so weak a playe

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