富士康的承诺在威斯康星州兑现得很慢

富士康的承诺在威斯康星州兑现得很慢

During a ceremony at the White House in July 2017. a beaming President Donald Trump announced Foxconn was coming to Wisconsin.

2017年7月，在白宫举行的仪式上，喜气洋洋的美国总统唐纳德·特朗普宣布富士康将入驻威斯康星州。

The world's largest contract manufacture of consumer electronics wanted to be in America, Trump said.

特朗普表示，世界上最大的消费电子产品代工企业希望落户美国。

"Investing many, many billions of dollars, right here in America, creating thousands of jobs," Trump said. "And I mean, American jobs, that's what we want."

特朗普说：“就在美国这里，投资数十亿美元，创造数千个就业机会。”“我的意思是，美国的就业机会，这就是我们想要的。”

To land the company, Wisconsin's then-governor, Republican Scott Walker, signed one of the largest tax incentive deals ever made between a state and private company.

为了获得这家公司，当时的威斯康星州州长、共和党人斯科特·沃克签署了州立公司和私营公司之间有史以来最大的税收优惠协议之一。

Foxconn was offered more than $3 billion in exchange for 13.000 jobs. Local governments sweetened the deal with another nearly $1 billion in tax incentives.

富士康获得了超过30亿美元的报酬，以换取1.3万个工作岗位。地方政府又提供了近10亿美元的税收优惠，为这笔交易增添了甜头。

The last two years have been a largely bumpy ride in Wisconsin. First, Foxconn reduced the size of the LCD display panels it said it would build in the state. And in 2018. the company didn't meet the job threshold to qualify for state money.

在过去的两年里，威斯康星州的道路基本上是崎岖不平的。首先，富士康缩小了其声称将在加州生产的LCD显示屏的规模。而在2018年，该公司没有达到获得政府资金的就业门槛。

Now, construction is underway in Racine County, Wis. The nearly 1-million-square-foot advanced manufacturing factory — significantly less than the originally promised 22 million-square-foot manufacturing plant — is now enclosed and may be ready to go this year.

现在，威斯康星州拉辛县的建设正在进行中。这个近100万平方英尺的先进制造工厂——比原先承诺的2200万平方英尺的制造工厂要小得多——现在已经封闭了，可能会在今年开工。

Construction crews are also working on two more buildings. And, Foxconn says workers are in another facility completed last year.

建筑工人们还在建造另外两座大楼。富士康表示，工人们正在另一个去年完工的工厂里工作。

Kim Mahoney, who co-owns the last home next to the project says it's still not what Foxconn pledged.

项目旁边最后一处房产的共同所有人金•马奥尼表示，这仍不是富士康承诺的目标。

"They're not creating the jobs they promised ... And that's what the draw was, to bring those manufacturing jobs back to Southeastern Wisconsin, and that's not what's happening, it doesn't appear," Mahoney says.

“他们没有创造他们承诺的就业机会……这就是瞩目的地方，把那些制造业的工作机会带回威斯康辛州的东南部，而这不是正在发生的事情，似乎没有发生。”马奥尼说。

Emails published by the The Verge show that for months, Wisconsin's now-Democratic Gov. Tony Evers had been encouraging Foxconn to revise its state contract to better reflect what appears to be a downsized manufacturing operation.

The Verge公布的电子邮件显示，几个月来，威斯康星州现在的民主党州长托尼·埃弗斯一直在鼓励富士康修改州合同，以更好地反映规模似乎缩减的制造业务。

Foxconn has denied repeated requests for interviews. But in a written statement the company said, "Foxconn will make business and hiring decisions based on timing that positions the company and future generations for long-term success."

富士康多次拒绝了采访要求。但该公司在一份书面声明中表示，“富士康将根据时机做出业务和招聘决定，为公司和未来几代人的长期成功奠定基础。”

Seven months after Foxconn announced it would build its massive manufacturing plant in southeastern Wisconsin, Scott Walker began making more promises.

7个月前，富士康宣布将在威斯康辛州东南部建立大规模的制造工厂，斯科特·沃克开始做出更多承诺。

Foxconn bought buildings in the cities' downtowns, promising to employ hundreds of workers at each site. The company said it would recruit from nearby colleges.

富士康在这些城市的市中心购买了高楼，并承诺在每个地方雇佣数百名工人。该公司表示，将从附近的大学招聘。

Two years later, nothing has opened. And none of the 1.200 jobs have been filled.

两年过去了，什么都没有发生。而1200个职位都没有人填补。

The innovation centers themselves were vaguely explained as a place to foster entrepreneurship.

创新中心本身被含糊地解释为培养创业精神的地方。

Matt Jewell, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, said he hoped his students could work at Foxconn. But he's unclear what the company is doing.

威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校工程学教授马特•朱厄尔表示，他希望自己的学生能在富士康工作。但他不清楚公司在做什么。

But a well-designed and well-managed incentive program can absolutely help achieve a community's economic development goals.

但是一个精心设计和管理的激励计划绝对可以帮助实现一个社区的经济发展目标。