中国防治冬季污染措施减慢工业增长

China’s manufacturing sector slowed last month as strict measures to curb winter pollution forced factories to cut production, the latest sign of policymakers’ increasing willingness to sacrifice economic growth in favour of other priorities.

中国制造业增速上月放缓，因限制冬季污染的严格措施迫使工厂减产，这个最新迹象表明政策制定者越来越愿意牺牲经济增长以支持其他优先事项。

Environmental inspections have prompted thousands of factory and mine closures across northern China. Hebei province, the centre of the country’s steel industry, said in September it would cut production by as much as half in large cities.

环境检查已促使中国北方数千家工厂和矿区关闭。今年9月，中国钢铁业重镇河北省表示，将把大城市的产量削减至多一半。

“The resulting blue skies over Beijing have upended the conventional wisdom that local government officials would always put economic growth over the environment,” wrote Yanmei Xie, analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, a Beijing-based research company.

北京研究公司龙洲经讯(Gavekal Dragonomics)的分析师谢艳梅写道：“由此出现的北京上空的蓝天颠覆了传统看法，即地方政府官员永远将经济增长置于环境之上。”