底特律推出债务削减计划

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　　CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Emergency financial manager of Detroit, a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, on Friday filed a detailed¹ debt-cutting plan in a federal court, with the hope of bringing the city out of bankruptcy².

　　The plan, which still awaits approval from a bankruptcy judge, aims to help the Motor City, which has 18 billion U.S. dollars in debt, shed financial burdens and pour money to improving the city' s infrastructure³.

　　With the plan, retirees would see cuts to benefits, while creditors⁴ such as banks would see just a fraction of what they're owed.

　　The 120-page plan has also outlined cuts to various groups of creditors, and provided new details about ongoing⁵ attempts to spin off the city's Water and Sewerage Department, prevent the Detroit Institute of Arts masterpieces from a fire sale and to restructure 11.5 billion dollars in unsecured claims.

　　"We must move swiftly to emerge from bankruptcy so that the financial distress⁶ harming the city can end," the Detroit News quoted Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr as saying in a statement Friday.

　　Orr maintained that the plan provided the best path forward for all parties to resolve their respective issues and "for Detroit to become once again a city in which people want to invest, live and work."

　　The debt-ridden Detroit filed bankruptcy on July 18, 2013.

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