Indeed, there are more Chinese people learning the English language than there are native speakers of English in the world today. This growing relationship is measurable, too, in financial terms. British firms now have a huge presence in China, a sign of their confidence in the country and its future. The UK is the largest European investor, and a British company, BP, is investing more capital in China than any other foreign firm. The largest foreign manufacturing investment in Western China is also British.
毫不夸張地說,當今世界上學習英語的中國人已經(jīng)超過了以英語為母語的人了。這種關系的發(fā)展也可以從經(jīng)濟角度來衡量。英國公司現(xiàn)在在中國有很大的規(guī)模。這表明他們對中國及其未來的信心。英國是歐洲在華的最大投資國。英國的BP公司在中國的投資超過了其他任何外國公司。中國西部最大的外國制造業(yè)投資也來自英國。