China’s plan to use high-speed rail technology as a “golden business card” to spearhead a global tide of infrastructure exports has run into trouble, with the value of projects called off far exceeding those under way, a Financial Times investigation has found.

　　英国《金融时报》一项调查发现，中国把高铁技术当作“黄金名片”、以带动一波全球基建出口潮流的计划遇到了麻烦，被取消项目的总价值远远超过开工项目。

　　The total value of 18 Chinese high-speed rail projects overseas — including one completed, five under way and 12 more announced — amounts to $143bn, according to a study by the FT and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think-tank.

　　根据由英国《金融时报》和华盛顿智库战略与国际问题研究中心(CSIS)开展的一项研究，中国18个海外高铁项目(其中包括一个已完工项目、五个在建项目、以及另外12个对外公布的项目)总价值为1430亿美元。

　　The ambition of China’s use of rail for economic diplomacy rivals that of the US-led Marshall Plan to revive Europe after the second world war, to which America contributed $13bn, or the equivalent of $130bn today. But the combined estimated value of projects called off in Mexico, Myanmar, Venezuela, Libya and the US is $47.5bn, the FT estimates. That is almost double the $24.9bn for projects under way in Laos, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and two in Iran, according to CSIS estimates.

　　中国把铁路用于经济外交的雄心，可以媲美二战后美国领导的复兴欧洲的马歇尔计划(Marshall Plan)。当年美国为马歇尔计划贡献了130亿美元，相当于今天的1300亿美元。但是据英国《金融时报》估计，在墨西哥、缅甸、委内瑞拉、利比亚和美国取消的高铁项目的总估计价值为475亿美元。而根据CSIS估计，在老挝、沙特阿拉伯、土耳其在建的高铁项目，以及在伊朗在建的两个高铁项目，规模总计为249亿美元。被取消项目的总价值接近在建项目的两倍。