China needs to reduce unfair subsidies and stop the theft of intellectual property as well as letting its currency appreciate, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, has said.

　　美國財長蒂姆·蓋特納(Tim Geithner)表示，除了允許人民幣升值以外，中國還需削減不公平的補(bǔ)貼，并制止盜竊知識產(chǎn)權(quán)行為。

　　In a speech on Wednesday ahead of next week’s visit to Washington by Hu Jintao, Chinese president, Mr Geithner widened the range of US concerns about Chinese economic policy well beyond the currency that has been a focus of Capitol Hill’s anger with Beijing.

　　蓋特納是在周三發(fā)表上述講話的，而下周中國國家主席胡錦濤就將訪問美國。蓋特納在講話中擴(kuò)大了美國對中國經(jīng)濟(jì)政策感到關(guān)切的范圍，遠(yuǎn)不僅限于匯率問題。人民幣匯率一直是美國國會對北京不滿的焦點。

　　But he also sought to reduce the blame attached to China for domestic economic woes, noting that the US needed to invest more in research and development, reform education and improve public infrastructure.

　　但他也有意緩和有關(guān)方面將美國國內(nèi)經(jīng)濟(jì)問題歸咎于中國的指責(zé)之聲，指出美國必須加大研發(fā)投資，改革教育體制，改善公共基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施。

　　China should promote fair competition by reducing the implicit state subsidies to its companies from low-cost finance, land and energy, and clamp down harder on the theft of intellectual property from foreign companies, he said. The world needed “a more level playing field for US companies that compete with Chinese companies in China, in the United States and around the world”.

　　蓋特納表示，中國應(yīng)減少政府通過低成本融資、土地和能源對企業(yè)給予的隱性補(bǔ)貼，以促進(jìn)公平競爭，并加大力度打擊盜竊外國公司知識產(chǎn)權(quán)的現(xiàn)象。“和中國企業(yè)在中國、美國以及世界各地進(jìn)行競爭的美國企業(yè)，需要一個更加公平的競爭環(huán)境”。

　　Addressing the rising Chinese currency, Mr Geithner said that the current rate of appreciation of about 6 percent a year – more like 10 percent in real terms because of higher Chinese inflation – was substantial but inadequate. “We believe it is in China’s interest to allow the currency to appreciate more rapidly in response to market forces,” he said. He said the country’s moves to relax capital restrictions to allow more trading in the renminbi were also highly significant.

　　談到人民幣升值問題，蓋特納表示，目前人民幣一年約6%的升值幅度——考慮到中國通脹上升，實際升幅更接近10%——相當(dāng)可觀，但還不夠大。他說：“我們認(rèn)為，允許人民幣順應(yīng)市場力量加快升值步伐符合中國利益。”他還表示，中國放寬資本管制、允許擴(kuò)大人民幣貿(mào)易的舉措也具有極其重要的意義。

　　Mr Geithner’s wider focus chimes with the views of many business organisations and some senior Republicans in the US House of Representatives.

　　蓋特納擴(kuò)大對中國問題的關(guān)注焦點，吻合許多商業(yè)機(jī)構(gòu)以及美國眾議院部分資深共和黨議員的觀點。