清华紫光获得220亿美元政府注资
拥有政府背景的中国半导体集团清华紫光(Tsinghua Unigroup)新获政府投资者220亿美元资金，用于资助收购以及帮助升级中国的半导体产业。
Unigroup, which considered a $23bn bid for US chipmaker Micron in 2015, will receive Rmb100bn ($14.5bn) from China Development Bank and Rmb50bn from the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, an investment group in part backed by the Ministry of Industry and Investment Technology.
清华紫光——曾在2015年考虑230亿美元收购美国芯片制造商美光(Micron)——将获得中国国家开发银行(China Development Bank)1000亿元人民币，以及国家集成电路产业投资基金(National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund)的500亿元人民币，该投资集团在一部分上受到中国工信部支持。
The capital injection comes as China’s top leadership attempts to encourage its technology companies to stop using western-developed chips, of which China imports more in dollar terms than oil.
清华紫光获得这笔注资之际，中国最高领导层试图鼓励国内科技公司停止使用西方开发的芯片，以美元计中国进口最多的是芯片，而不是石油。
State-backed groups from China have sought to acquire overseas semiconductor rivals in the hope of bringing the technology back to domestic developers. But the effort has attracted harsh scrutiny from regulators in the US, who have blocked numerous transactions on the grounds that China’s expansion in the industry poses national security concerns.
一些拥有政府背景的中国企业一直力图收购海外半导体竞争对手，希望将该技术带回给国内开发者。但这一努力吸引了美国监管机构的严格审查，美方已阻止多起交易，理由是中国在该行业的扩张引发国家安全问题。
The company did not provide details on how the cash is to be spent, other than that it will be used to upgrade China’s semiconductor business, bolster its competitiveness and “rapidly expand the scale of the industry”.
清华紫光没有公布这笔资金的具体用途，只表示将用于升级中国半导体产业，提升其竞争力，以及“迅速扩大产业规模”。
Unigroup, which was founded in 1993 by the Tsinghua University in Beijing, gained global recognition in 2015 when it said it was considering an offer for Micron for up to $23bn — what would have been the biggest cross-border acquisition for a Chinese group at the time.
清华紫光由清华大学(Tsinghua University)于1993年在北京成立，2015年闻名全球，当时该公司表示考虑向美光提出高达230亿美元的报价，这将是中国企业当时作出的最大一笔跨境收购。
The deal never happened, and the group was then involved in other high-profile efforts such as a $3.8bn bid for the US’s Western Digital, which fell apart in early 2016.
但这笔交易并未成行，清华紫光随后还参与了其他高调收购，例如38亿美元竞购美国西部数据(Western Digital)，2016年初该交易失败。
It has succeeded on a number of transactions, however. Since 2013, Unigroup has bought up domestic chipmakers, including Spreadtrum and RDA Microelectronics, and a 51 per cent stake in H3C from Hewlett-Packard for $2.3bn.
不过清华紫光已成功完成了数笔交易。自2013年起，清华紫光已收购了若干家国内芯片制造商，包括展讯(Spreadtrum)、锐迪科微电子(RDA Microelectronics)，以及斥资23亿美元从惠普(Hewlett-Packard)手中获得H3C的51%股权。
The US government has blocked a number of attempts by Chinese groups to acquire technology businesses, citing national security concerns, sometimes far beyond its own borders.
美国政府以国家安全问题为由，已阻止了中国集团收购科技企业的许多尝试，有时甚至超越了其自身边界。
In early December, then-US President Barack Obama shot down a Chinese technology fund’s €670m purchase of German chip equipment maker Aixtron. Early last year, the US Committee on Foreign Investment blocked a $3bn offer from a Chinese consortium for a US-based lighting unit of the Dutch group Philips.
去年12月初，时任美国总统巴拉克•奥巴马(Barack Obama)阻止了一家中国科技基金以6.7亿欧元收购德国芯片设备制造商爱思强(Aixtron)。去年初，美国外国投资委员会(CFIUS)阻止一个中国财团向荷兰飞利浦(Philips)旗下美国照明部门发起的30亿美元收购。
Capital set aside by state groups — so-called “corporate shadow capital” — helped lead to soaring valuations among Chinese companies in 2016. In an attempt to boost some of its ailing industrial sector, the Chinese government launched a $30bn venture capital fund last year aimed at upgrading technology in the sector.
2016年国有企业拨出的资本——所谓的“企业影子资本”——导致中国企业估值飙升。为了提振国内工业部门一些境况不佳的企业，中国政府去年推出了一个300亿美元的风险投资基金，以提升该行业的技术。
