VOA慢速英語：中國人開始投資硅谷公司

Chinese Investing in Silicon Valley Companies

中國人開始投資硅谷公司

American Mark Pavlyukovskyy created a company that provides materials people can use to build their own computer.

美國人馬克·帕夫柳科夫斯基(Mark Pavlyukovskyy)創(chuàng)建了一家向人們提供材料組裝自己的電腦的公司。

Last year, when he was searching for people to invest in his company, he wanted someone who knew the Chinese market.

去年他在尋找投資人的時候，他想要找到一位了解中國市場的人。

Pavlyukovskyy did not have to travel to Beijing or Shanghai to find people knowledgeable about China. Silicon Valley in California is home to many Chinese with money to invest in small or start-up businesses.

帕夫柳科夫斯基不需要去北京或上海尋找了解中國的人士。加州的硅谷就有很多手握資金想要投資小型或初創(chuàng)公司的中國人。

Pavlyukovskyy was born in Ukraine. He now works in San Francisco. Last year nine people or groups invested $2.1 million in his company. One of the investors was a Chinese business based in Silicon Valley.

帕夫柳科夫斯基出生在烏克蘭。他現(xiàn)在在舊金山工作。去年有9家個人或團體向他的公司投資了210萬美元。其中一家投資者是位于硅谷的中國公司。

Pavlyukovskyy said he was not just searching for investment money, but for people with "expertise and knowledge of the education market in China."

帕夫柳科夫斯基表示他不僅要尋找投資資金，而且還要尋找具有中國教育市場專業(yè)知識的人士。

His company, called Piper, sells parts for a computer that children can build. Each computer kit sells for $299. The company has sold its kits to schools in Hong Kong. More than 150,000 kits have been shipped around the world.

他的公司名為Piper，出售供兒童組建電腦的零件。每臺電腦套件的售價為299美元。該公司已經(jīng)向香港的學(xué)校出售了套件。15萬多套的套件已經(jīng)賣到了世界各地。

For the past 10 years, people and groups in Silicon Valley have invested in China as the country opened its markets and companies worked to expand there. But now Chinese companies are beginning to look outside China for places to invest.

在過去十年里，隨著中國市場開放，外國公司尋求在中國擴大經(jīng)營，硅谷的個人或團體到中國進行了投資。但是現(xiàn)在中國公司開始在中國境外尋找投資機會。

Chinese investors have already had an effect on the American real estate, energy and transportation sectors. But they have only recently begun investing in technology companies.

中國投資者已經(jīng)對美國房地產(chǎn)市場、能源和交通行業(yè)產(chǎn)生了影響。但是他們最近才開始投資科技公司。

Chinese investors looking for American creativity

中國投資者尋求美國創(chuàng)造力

Now, Chinese groups and individuals are investing in Silicon Valley companies. It may take longer for these deals to be profitable than in real estate, but there is a greater chance to make a lot of money.

現(xiàn)在，中國的團體和個人開始投資硅谷公司。與房地產(chǎn)相比，這些交易可能需要更長時間才能盈利，但是有更大的賺錢機會。

David Cao was a computer programmer in Singapore before he launched an investment company in 2014. He says "this is the very beginning."

曹大海(David Cao)于2014年創(chuàng)辦了一家投資公司，在此之前他是新加坡的一名計算機程序員。他說，“這才是開始。”

Chris Evdemon says many Chinese are investing in American companies because they believe more innovation is coming from the United States.

易可睿(Chris Evdemon)表示，很多中國人開始投資美國公司，因為他們認(rèn)為更多的創(chuàng)新來自于美國。

In 2014, Evdemon launched Sinovation, the American part of Chuangxin, a leading Chinese investor in start-up companies. He has now invested in 38 new companies that deal with such things as robotics and education technology.

2014年，易可睿創(chuàng)建了中國創(chuàng)新公司美國分公司賽諾維新公司，這是一家投資初創(chuàng)公司的領(lǐng)先的中國投資公司。他目前投資了38家涉及機器人和教育技術(shù)的新公司。

Chinese investors are interested in companies specializing in technology to improve digital entertainment. They also would like to invest in robotics, artificial intelligence and technologies related to the financial, health and education markets.

中國投資者對專門從事提升數(shù)字娛樂技術(shù)的公司感興趣。他們也想投資跟機器人、人工智能，以及跟金融、健康和教育市場相關(guān)的公司。

The U.S. Department of Defense is worried that technology that could increase America's security may instead go to China. The department recently released a report about its concerns.

美國國防部擔(dān)心這些原本可以提升美國安全的技術(shù)會轉(zhuǎn)而進入中國。該部門最近就他們的擔(dān)憂發(fā)布了一份報告。

The report questioned whether China and Chinese investors in Silicon Valley were gaining use of important technologies through their investments.

該報告質(zhì)疑中國和硅谷的中國投資者是否會通過投資獲得重要技術(shù)的應(yīng)用。

I'm Dorothy Gundy.

我是多蘿西·甘地。