很难想出一种产品在中国的市场销路有如商用飞机（之如中国）那么好的。这个国家疆域辽阔并且远离其主要贸易伙伴。它的巨大经济正在不断产生新的亿万富翁。但是中国的企业飞机的数量，却少于400架，比诸如巴西和墨西哥这些发展较弱的市场还要少。亚洲天空集团，一家顾问公司的Jeffrey Lowe认为，这甚至少于仅在加州橘子郡机场找到的数量。
It is hard to think of a product for which China is as promising a market [as it is] for business jets. The country is vast and far from its main trading partners. Its huge economy is churning out new billionaires. But the number of China's corporate jets, fewer than 400, [is smaller] than [in] lesser emerging markets such as[/like] Brazil and Mexico. It's even smaller, reckons Jeffrey Lowe of Asian Sky Group, a consultant, than the number found just at Orange County airport in California.
然而这周在上海虹桥机场一场大型业内集会上，氛围却积极向上。长期以来是（飞机数量）增长最大阻碍的政府，正在改变其态度。迄今为止，过度监管导致进口飞机耗资巨大，训练本地机师复杂以及归档飞行计划缓慢冗长。官方曾经重复地谈及对购买新飞机施加奢侈品税，这还是建立在现存的繁重关税和税款上。在北京的主要机场，商用飞机每小时只有2次起飞的机会。
Yet the mood [was] upbeat this week at a big industry gathering at Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai. The government, long the biggest obstacle to growth, is changing its attitude. Until now over-regulation has made importing planes costly, training local pilots complex and filing flight plans cumbersome. Officials have repeatedly talked [of] slapping [a] luxury tax on [the] purchase of new jets, on top of existing hefty[/onerous] duties and taxes. [At] Beijing's main airport, business jets [get] only two take off slot an hour.
习近平主席新政府执行的反腐运动已经导致了国有企业，或者国企，来避免飞机。一个航空产业老手说，严打（整风）之前，国企高管曾经组成了也许15%的本地飞机租赁市场（份额），但是如今那个数字是5%。
[An] anti-corruption drive by the newish government of President Xi Jinpin has led state-own enterprises, or SOES, to shun jets. A aviation industry veteran says that SOE executives [once made] up perhaps 15% of the local jet-leasing market before the crackdown, but that figure today is 5%.
但是，政府现在貌似准备释放商业航空的潜力。它正承诺每年建造10到15个机场。中国目前仅有不到400个民用机场，而全美能供小型飞机降落的停机坪有1.8万个。最新的官方五年计划明确促进来非航空公司的飞行的发展，并呼吁改革来改善/提高领空的效率和分配。这个事情很重要，因为中国的空军封锁了极大部分的领空。
[Still,] now the government seems ready to unleash the potential of business aviation. It's promising to build ten to 15 airports a year. China now only has [fewer than] 400 airports for civil use, whereas small planes[/jets] can land [at] 18,000 fields across America. The latest official five-year plan explicitly promotes [the development of] non-airline [aviation] and calls for reform [to improve] the efficiency and allocation of air space. This matters, because China's air force block[s] an inordinately [large] amount of it.
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it is hard to think of
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huge economy/lesser emerging markets
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at Orange County Airport in California/Hongqiao Airport in Shanghai/Beijing's main airport
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a big industry gathering
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over-regulation/made importing jets costly, training local pilots complex and filing flight plans cumbersome.
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An anti-corruption drive/the crackdown
the newish government of President Xi Jinping
state-owned enterprises/SOEs
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made up
jet-leasing
unleash potential...
China/the country/local
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explicitly/inordinately
promote the development of non-airline aviation
call for reforms to improve the efficiency and allocation of air space
air force blocks an inordinately large amount
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this matters
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