今日听力丨两名华裔教授被美国埃默里大学解雇

5月27日，国家统计局发布数据显示，4月全国规模以上工业企业利润同比下跌3.7%，比3月下跌13.9%。由于4月1日起实施增值税税率下调，4月份部分工业产品需求在3月份提前释放。这是4月利润下跌的原因之一。

China’s industrial companies’ profits dropped in April following a surge in the previous month, official data showed Monday, adding to concerns over the recovery of the country’s economic growth.

Profits of industrial enterprises dropped 3.7 percent year-on-year in April, significantly down from a 13.9 percent increase in March.

The drop was partly due to the timing of the value-added tax cut at the start of April, which prompted firms to shift purchases earlier to March, said Zhu Hong, a senior statistician at the National Bureau of Statistics.

Zhu said the drop was also caused by a high base of comparison last year.

China’s major economic indicators for investment, retail and industrial output in April also showed growth falling from multi-month highs in March.

5月25日，银保监会首席风险官、办公厅主任肖远企，代央行党委书记、银保监会主席郭树清出席2019清华五道口全球金融论坛，并念了郭树清的演讲稿。在这份约7000字的演讲稿中，郭树清回应了国际上的一些质疑之声。郭树清指出，近年来国际上有观点认为，中国经济的快速发展是实行“国家垄断资本主义”的结果，这种说法毫无根据。

China’s economy is not based on “state monopoly capitalism,” the country’s top banking regulator said Saturday, adding the country won’t stop the momentum of opening up its financial industry.

The state sector now contributes less than 40 percent of China’s GDP, and it’s groundless to insist that the rapidly growing economy is a result of following a “state monopoly capitalism” model, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission head Guo Shuqing said in a statement read by one of his representatives at a forum in Beijing.

The statement said private capital and foreign investment can now enter almost any business area, and many state-owned companies have added private stakeholders and are competing with each other.

He added China's ongoing opening up of the financial sector will never stop, let alone turn back.

His remarks come after complaints by many nations, including the U.S., that China unfairly supports state-owned companies to the detriment of private rivals in a number of key sectors, such as energy and telecommunications.

China maintains a blacklist of 48 sectors where foreign investment is restricted, including entertainment, internet publications and law firms.

中国芯片制造商中芯国际5月24日晚间宣布，将申请其美国预托证券股份（ADR）从纽交所退市，并撤销该等ADR和相关普通股的注册。中芯国际表示，这主要是因为ADR的交易量与其全球交易量相比有限，且维持中芯国际在纽交所上市的行政负担和成本巨大。

Leading Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC, has notified the New York Stock Exchange that it plans to voluntarily delist its American depositary shares, or ADSs.

SMIC cited “a number of considerations,” including the limited trading volume of its ADSs relative to its worldwide trading volume.

It also attributed the move to significant administrative burdens and costs of maintaining the listing and registration, as well as complying with periodic reporting and related obligations.

The board has approved the delisting and deregistration.

SMIC’s last trading day on the exchange will be in mid-June.

The company debuted in Hong Kong and New York in 2004.

据彭博报道，华为正在洽谈约10亿美元的离岸贷款，这是华为遭遇美国禁令后首次寻求的大规模融资。

Chinese telecom giant Huawei is seeking about 1 billion dollars from a small group of lenders, in its first major funding test after getting hit with U.S. curbs that threaten to cut off access to critical suppliers, Bloomberg reported.

The world’s largest provider of networking gear is seeking an offshore loan in either U.S. or Hong Kong dollars, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

The latest fundraising attempt comes about four months after Huawei obtained a 14 billion yuan loan from five Chinese banks.

在“明天系”实际控制人肖建华被带走两年零三个月后，其旗下核心金融机构之一的包商银行被接管。除了1998年被宣布关闭后被接管、清算的海南发展银行以外，这是中国20年来第一家被宣布监管接管的商业银行。

China’s financial regulators have taken control of a small private bank, as part of authorities’ efforts to break up fallen tycoon Xiao Jianhua’s business empire and contain financial risks.

The People’s Bank of China and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission announced Friday that they would take over the operations of Baoshang Bank for a year.

The rare takeover came two years after Xiao, the billionaire founder of conglomerate Tomorrow Holding Group, went missing from a luxury Hong Kong hotel.

He is reportedly subject to a graft investigation by Chinese authorities.

日前，美国埃默里大学的两名华裔教授李晓江、李世华遭校方解雇，其实验室也被关闭。5月23日，校方发表内部公开邮件说明原因，称两名教授“未公开来自国外的研究经费，以及在中国研究机构和大学工作的范围”。对此，李晓江表示“目前还没想好是否起诉”。

Two Chinese-American researchers sacked from Emory University in the U.S. for allegedly failing to fully reveal their Chinese links said they are weighing the option of suing.

Last week, the Atlanta-based University announced two faculty members had been dismissed, because they had, quote, “failed to fully disclose foreign sources of research funding and the extent of their work for research institutions and universities in China.”

The university said the decision was made based on an investigation after an inquiry by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.