意大利企业狂寻中国买家

 　　克洛蒂尔德·纳尔齐西和卢卡·索利曼经营Orefici咖啡馆已有10年时间，这间咖啡馆距米兰地标建筑米兰大教堂仅200英尺。但是，由于税金过高，二人被迫将咖啡馆转让出售。他们现在唯一的希望就是将咖啡馆转手至中国人手中。

　　自去年2月起，数名商人或个体户在Vendereaicinesi.it网站上发布了1.8万条转手广告，Orefici咖啡馆也发布了一条。Vendereaicinesi.it网站是一个专门向中国人发布转让信息的网站。这个网站帮助在6年里遭受3次经济萧条的意大利人吸引中国收购公司的招标，其内容包括财产，产品以及服务。

　　当意大利商店向当地华人社区寻求帮助时，该国最大的几家企业也在向中国寻求直接投资。彭博社数据显示，2014年，意大利成为中国在欧洲的第二大投资收购国，仅次于英国，跨境收购交易额达34.3亿美元。

　　Clotilde Narzisi and Luca Soliman have run the Caffe Orefici, 200 feet from Milan's iconic Duomo Cathedral, for 10 years. Forced to sell their business because of high taxes, they say their only hope now is to leave it in Chinese hands.

　　意大利企业狂寻中国买家

　　"They are the only ones who are buying," said 43-year-old Narzisi during a break after the lunch-time rush of businessmen and shoppers in the heart of Italy's financial capital. "We want to sell, taxes are too high; we work eight hours a day for the state and one hour for us."

　　Caffe Orefici is among the 18,000 advertisements from businesses and individuals that have been published since February last year onVendereaicinesi.it -- sell to the Chinese -- a website that helps Italians, stricken by the third recession in six years, attract bids for properties, products and services from Chinese suitors.

　　While Italian stores turn to the local Chinese community, the country's largest companies are seeking investments directly from the Asian giant. Italy has beenChina's biggest target in Europe after the U.K. this year, with cross-border acquisitions for $3.43 billion, according to Bloomberg available data.

　　Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who's struggling to cut Europe's second-biggest debt of more than 2 trillion euros ($2.53 trillion), urged Chinese investors¹ in June during a Beijing visit to buy stakes in Italian companies, following his counterparts in Greece and Portugal who tapped Chinese money to raise revenue and exit bailout programs.

　　Mandarin² Site

　　Chinese Premier³ Li Keqiang will attend a summit of European and Asian leaders and other business events in Milan from Oct. 16, completing his week-long European visit.

　　The Caffe Orefici bar managers turned to Vendereaicinesi.it, whose ads are translated into mandarin and can also be published in other Chinese websites for a fee, after striking out with a local agent. Their ad was viewed 400 times in three weeks and they received four expressions of interest, said Narzisi. Ads range from an ice-cream parlor⁴ in Tuscany to a historic jeans shop in Cremona and aFerrari 458 Italia.

　　"We realized that an online tool to link Italians and Chinese was missing," said Simone Toppino, 35, who co-founded with his brother Alberto and Alessandro Zhou the website that has a mirror mandarin site Maimaiouzhou.com. They charge 42 euros to about 90 euros for their services. Most Chinese users of the website live in Italy. Bankruptcies⁵ have reached a record high this year, with more than 8,000 companies going bust⁶ in the first half in Italy, Cerved Group SpA data show.

　　Record Unemployment

　　While unemployment near a record of 12.7 percent and fiscal⁷ burden at an all-time high make it difficult for Italians to access credit, the 321,000 Chinese living in the country are better positioned as they can count on family networks rather than banks for financing, said Toppino, who's from the northwestern town of Alba.

　　Renzi flew to China in June with a delegation⁸ of dozens of Italian companies to help broker⁹ deals. A few weeks later, Italy's state lender announced the sale of a stake in energy grids¹¹ holding company CDP Reti SpA to State Grid¹⁰ Corp. of Chinafor 2.1 billion euros.

　　People's Bank of China in July disclosed stakes in some of Italy's biggest companies, Fiat¹² SpA (F), Telecom Italia SpA (TIT) and Assicurazioni Generali SpA (G), adding to investments in Eni SpA (ENI) and Enel SpA (ENEL) in March for a total of 3.04 billion euros.

　　Chinese Acquisitions

　　Chinese global cross-border acquisitions topped $54.3 billion this year, up 35 percent, Bloomberg available data show. Shanghai-based Fosun International Ltd. (656) in January outbid a U.S. buyout firm for Portugal's 80 stake in Caixa Geral de Depositos SA's insurance unit for 1 billion euros. Hong Kong-basedCosco Pacific Ltd. (1199) is among bidders¹³ of a state-fund stake in Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) while a Chinese venture is seeking a majority in Athens International Airport.

　　Renzi's government is considering selling stakes in energy companies Eni and Enel after other planned asset sales were delayed.

　　"We registered an increase in clients interested in investments in Italy last year and the trend has continued in 2014, with a growth of almost 50 percent," said Sara Marchetta, resident partner of law firm Chiomenti in Beijing, which advised State Grid in the biggest deal in Europe for a Chinese firm this year. Fashion, machinery¹⁴ and industrial equipment are target industries, she said. Retail¹⁵ group Shenzhen Marisfrolg Fashion Co. Ltd bought ready-to-wear brand Krizia in February.

　　Finmeccanica Units

　　More than 90 Chinese groups, excluding Hong Kong, had a stake in Italian firms at the end of 2013, up almost 20 percent, according to the Milan-based Italy-China Foundation, which promotes business among the two countries. In May, state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti SpA's strategic fund sold a 40 percent stake in Ansaldo Energia SpA, formerly¹⁶ owned by state defense¹⁷ holding Finmeccanica SpA (FNC), to Shanghai Electric Group Co. (2727) A China CNR Corp.-led group made it to the short list of two bidders for Finmeccanica's transport units.

　　"Confidence has returned and investing in the country is convenient because prices are very low right now and there are jewels being sold for peanuts," said Antimo Cappuccio, a Shanghai-based partner of Pirola Pennuto Zei & Associati. The law firm is advising the China Corporate¹⁸ United Pavilion on its mission to bring about 50 companies, including Shanghai Baosteel Group Corp., to the 2015 Milan Expo international fair, which has already sold 1 million tickets in China.

　　Direct Chinese investments in the euro area have almost quadrupled between 2006 and 2012, the latest year for which data are available, while portfolio¹⁹ investments rose 60 percent, according to data from the European Central Bank.

　　The Chinese "are buying pretty much everything so I tried to put an ad as well," said Marina Cerrato, who in July last year sold her amusement arcade²⁰ in Alba in less than 40 days to a Chinese family from Bologna through the Vendereaicinesi.it website. "I didn't give it away, I sold at the price I intended."

1 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

2 Mandarin   

n.中国官话，国语，满清官吏；adj.华丽辞藻的

参考例句：

• Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
• Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。

3 premier   

adj.首要的；n.总理，首相

参考例句：

• The Irish Premier is paying an official visit to Britain.爱尔兰总理正在对英国进行正式访问。
• He requested that the premier grant him an internview.他要求那位总理接见他一次。

4 parlor   

n.店铺，营业室；会客室，客厅

参考例句：

• She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
• Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店？

5 bankruptcies   

n.破产( bankruptcy的名词复数 )；倒闭；彻底失败；（名誉等的）完全丧失

参考例句：

• It's a matter of record that there were ten bankruptcies in the town last year. 去年这个城市有十家破产是事实。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Business bankruptcies rose 50 percent over the previous year. 破产企业的数量比前一年增加５０％。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件

6 bust   

vt.打破；vi.爆裂；n.半身像；胸部

参考例句：

• I dropped my camera on the pavement and bust it. 我把照相机掉在人行道上摔坏了。
• She has worked up a lump of clay into a bust.她把一块黏土精心制作成一个半身像。

7 fiscal   

adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的

参考例句：

• The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
• The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。

8 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

9 broker   

n.中间人，经纪人；v.作为中间人来安排

参考例句：

• He baited the broker by promises of higher commissions.他答应给更高的佣金来引诱那位经纪人。
• I'm a real estate broker.我是不动产经纪人。

10 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

11 grids   

n.格子( grid的名词复数 )；地图上的坐标方格；（输电线路、天然气管道等的）系统网络；（汽车比赛）赛车起跑线

参考例句：

• Typical framed structures are beams, grids, plane and space frames or trusses. 典型构架结构为梁、格栅、平面的和空间的框架或桁架。 来自辞典例句
• The machines deliver trimmed grids for use or stock. 这种机器铸出修整过的板栅，以供使用或储存。 来自辞典例句

12 fiat   

n.命令，法令，批准；vt.批准，颁布

参考例句：

• The opening of a market stall is governed by municipal fiat.开设市场摊位受市政法令管制。
• He has tried to impose solutions to the country's problems by fiat.他试图下令强行解决该国的问题。

13 bidders   

n.出价者，投标人( bidder的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Bidders should proceed only if they intend on using a PayPal account to complete payment. Bidders的唯一形式，应继续只当他们在使用贝宝帐户，以完成付款打算。 来自互联网
• The other bidders for the contract complained that it had not been a fair contest. 其他竞标人抱怨说该合同的竞标不公平。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 machinery   

n.(总称)机械，机器；机构

参考例句：

• Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗？
• Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。

15 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。

16 formerly   

adv.从前，以前

参考例句：

• We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
• This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。

17 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

18 corporate   

adj.共同的，全体的；公司的，企业的

参考例句：

• This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
• His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。

19 portfolio   

n.公事包；文件夹；大臣及部长职位

参考例句：

• He remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio.他因为她带着一个大公文包而记住了她。
• He resigned his portfolio.他辞去了大臣职务。

20 arcade   

n.拱廊；(一侧或两侧有商店的)通道

参考例句：

• At this time of the morning,the arcade was almost empty.在早晨的这个时候，拱廊街上几乎空无一人。
• In our shopping arcade,you can find different kinds of souvenir.在我们的拱廊市场，你可以发现许多的纪念品。