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Schumpeter: Self-Reliance
熊彼特:自力更生
The future of its biggest company is important for India itself.
印度最大公司的未來(lái)對(duì)印度本身很重要。
India Inc’s business calendar has only one contender to rival Berkshire Hathaway’s famous shareholder gathering.
印度企業(yè)的商業(yè)日歷上只有一個(gè)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)者可以與伯克希爾哈撒韋著名的股東大會(huì)相匹敵。
The subcontinent’s equivalent of that “Woodstock for capitalists” is the annual general meeting of Reliance Industries.
信實(shí)工業(yè)的年度股東大會(huì)相當(dāng)于印度次大陸上“資本家的伍德斯托克音樂(lè)節(jié)”。
The company’s founder, Dhirubhai Ambani, an upstart entrepreneur from Gujarat, was also an outsider with a nose for opportunities.
該公司的創(chuàng)始人迪魯拜·安巴尼是一位來(lái)自古吉拉特邦的新貴企業(yè)家，也是一個(gè)善于尋找機(jī)會(huì)的門(mén)外漢。
He built India’s largest company from a humble trading and textiles firm into a vast conglomerate.
他將印度最大的公司從一家不起眼的貿(mào)易和紡織品公司打造成了一家大型聯(lián)合企業(yè)。
It has continued to expand after his death under the leadership of his son Mukesh Ambani and today encompasses petrochemicals, refining, telecoms, a shopping app and retail stores—among other things.
在他的兒子穆克什·安巴尼的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下，該公司在他去世后繼續(xù)擴(kuò)張，如今涵蓋了石油化工、煉油、電信、購(gòu)物應(yīng)用軟件和零售店等領(lǐng)域。
The importance of the resulting entity to India is impossible to overstate.
由此產(chǎn)生的實(shí)體對(duì)印度的重要性怎么強(qiáng)調(diào)都不為過(guò)。
With a market value of $206bn, the firm’s revenues are the equivalent of 3% of the country’s GDP.
該公司的市值為2060億美元，其收入相當(dāng)于印度國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值的3%。
Among India’s largest 500 public companies, it is responsible for 6% of sales and profits, 7% of total capitalisation and a staggering 18% of capital investment.
在印度最大的500家上市公司中，它貢獻(xiàn)了6%的銷(xiāo)售額和利潤(rùn)，7%的總資本和驚人的18%的資本投資。
Jio, the telecoms division, provides service to 410m Indians, and is the latest in a series of massive, stomach-churning capital-intensive bets that have paid off over the years.
旗下的電信公司Jio為4.1億印度人提供服務(wù)，是多年來(lái)一系列大規(guī)模、令人反胃的資本密集型投資中，獲得回報(bào)的最新一筆投資。
The retail operations are by far the largest in India, encompassing 15,000 shops.
到目前為止，該公司旗下的零售公司是印度最大的公司，涵蓋了1.5萬(wàn)家商店。
Its refinery and petrochemicals operation in the north-west of the country is among the biggest in the world.
該公司在印度西北部的煉油和石油化工子公司是世界上最大的公司之一。
In short, any change at Reliance affects India as a whole—and it appears that change may well be on the way.
簡(jiǎn)而言之，信實(shí)的任何變化都會(huì)影響整個(gè)印度--而且看起來(lái)很可能正要發(fā)生變化。
The rumour mill has been abuzz because this year the annual meeting, usually held in June or July in Mumbai, has yet to be scheduled.
謠言四起是因?yàn)椋甓葧?huì)議通常在6月或7月于孟買(mǎi)舉行，而今年的年度會(huì)議卻還沒(méi)有定下來(lái)。
Mr Ambani seems to have largely withdrawn from public appearances.
安巴尼似乎已基本上不再公開(kāi)露面。
The company says he is spending time in Jamnagar, the site of the company’s massive oil refinery.
公司表示，他正在公司的大型煉油廠所在地賈姆訥格爾縣度過(guò)一段時(shí)間。
India’s gossipy business world, where no figure receives more attention, is alight with talk that he may be suffering from health problems.
在印度八卦的商界，沒(méi)有人比他更受關(guān)注，到處都是他的健康可能出了問(wèn)題的傳言。
The company says he is well and continues to attend public functions within the restrictions of a pandemic.
公司稱(chēng)他很好，仍繼續(xù)在遵守疫情限制規(guī)定的情況下參加公共活動(dòng)。
On June 28th the company said that Mr Ambani would step aside from the chairmanship of Jio Infocomm, a subsidiary of the telecoms arm, in favour of his 30-year-old son, Akash.
6月28日，公司稱(chēng)安巴尼將辭去電信子公司Jio Infocomm的董事長(zhǎng)職務(wù)，讓位給他30歲的兒子阿卡什。
The next day reports emerged that Akash’s twin sister, Isha, would soon head Reliance’s retail operations.
第二天有報(bào)道稱(chēng)，阿卡什的雙胞胎妹妹伊莎很快將領(lǐng)導(dǎo)信實(shí)旗下的零售公司。
And on July 3rd the Hindu Business Line, a newspaper, said that Mr Ambani’s wife, Nita, already a director of Reliance, was favoured by some on the board to become a vice-chairman of the company.
7月3日，《印度商業(yè)線報(bào)》稱(chēng)，安巴尼的妻子妮塔已經(jīng)是信實(shí)的董事，董事會(huì)中的一些人支持她成為該公司的副董事長(zhǎng)。
Another son, Anant, is also said to be positioned to take over running part of its energy operations.
他們的另一個(gè)兒子阿南特?fù)?jù)說(shuō)也將接管該公司旗下的部分能源公司。
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