David:What is China’s pharmaceutical industry like? 中国的医药业怎么样?
You:In the past fifty years, China’s pharmaceutical industry has grown fromnothing into a booming industry. When the PRC
was established in 1949, China’s basic pharmaceutical industries were veryweak. 在过去的50年里,中国的医药业实现了从低潮到繁
荣的转变。尽管1949年建国时,中国的医药业还都十分薄弱。
David:The entire pharmaceutical industry? 你是在说整个医药行业吗?
You:对。50年代时,医药业不大景气。
David:。So in the last 50 years it has developed.所以,你认为这些发展都要归功于近50年
You:Yes, and now China has achieved an important position in the worldmarket as a supplier of raw materials for
pharmaceuticals. 对。中国的药品原料出口已经在世界上占有很重要的地位。
David:What do you mean? 怎么讲?
You:I mean that many multi national companies depend on China for rawmaterials, and China has cornered about 30% of the
market share for pharmaceutical chemicals.中国是很多跨国公司的原料供应地,而且它的化学药品在世界市场上的份额达30%之多。
David:It seems like in the past 50 years China’s pharmaceutical market hasopened to the world. 好像中国的医药市场在过去的`50
年里一直都是开放的,是吗?
You:Not exactly. In the first thirty years, China’s economy was not open toWestern countries. But since the 1980’s, in the
last twenty years, China’s international trade has taken off.是这样的。最初的30年里,步伐比较缓慢;改革开放近20年以来,发展越来越快。