通力集团(Kone)首席执行官马蒂 阿拉胡赫塔(Matti Alahuhta)表示，中国快速增长的建筑行业没有出现任何放缓迹象，目前城市化进程正从沿海大城市向内陆蔓延。通力是全球最大的电梯及自动扶梯制造商之一。
　　阿拉胡赫塔表示，中国政府旨在让国内房产市场降温的举措，正在北京、上海等市场热点减缓增长，但在较小的城市和更靠近西部的地区，建筑活动仍在加速。
　　“今年第一季度我们在中国接到的订单非常强劲，我们预期全年将持续保持增长，”阿拉胡赫塔对英国《金融时报》表示。他特别指出，经济适用房是主要需求来源之一。
　　通力在中国取得的成功，突显西方制造商得益于大（国际电梯网）型新兴市场飞速城市化和基建发展的机遇。
　　这家芬兰公司本月从中国政府赢得一份订单，向中国各地46个火车站供应178部电梯和226部自动扶梯。
　　阿拉胡赫塔预计，随着中国城市人口继续增加，未来会有更多此类交易。
　　根据咨询公司麦肯锡(McKinsey)的数据，今后20年期间，中国将增加3.5亿城市人口，比美国总人口还多。
　　预计到2025年，中国将有219个人口超百万的城市，而欧洲目前只有35个这种规模的城市。
　　通力是全球建筑活动的晴雨计，因为该公司的产品用于世界各地的各类建筑物，从公寓大楼到购物中心。
　　自金融危机爆发以来，中国和印度的快速增长帮助该公司克服了欧洲和北美业务的下滑，过去一年亚太区销售额增长三分之一，如今在营业收入总额中占到22%。
　　阿拉胡赫塔表示，美国建筑业正在逐渐复苏，但警告称，随着过去两年的政府刺激支出（其中相当大部分投入基础设施项目）开始消退，美国的局面仍然脆弱。
　　欧洲建筑业前景也仍然参差不齐，北欧已恢复增长，但遭受危机打击的南欧继续呈现弱势。
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Chinese building boom lifts Kone

　　来源：ftchinese.com
　　 China’s surging construction sector is showing no signs of slowing as urbanisation spreads inland from big coastal cities, says the chief executive of Kone, one of the world’s biggest makers of lifts and escalators.
Matti Alahuhta said Chinese government efforts to cool the country’s property market were moderating growth in hot spots such as Beijing and Shanghai but construction activity was continuing to accelerate in smaller cities and more westerly regions.
“Our order intake was very strong in China in the first quarter and we expect growth to continue throughout the year,” he told the Financial Times, highlighting affordable housing as one of the main sources of demand.
Kone’s success in China highlights the opportunity for western manufacturers to benefit from surging rates of urbanisation and infrastructure development in big emerging markets
The Finnish company won an order this month from the Chinese government to supply 178 lifts and 226 escalators to 46 railway stations across the country.
Mr Alahuhta predicted there would be more such deals in future as China’s urban population continued to expand.
According to McKinsey, the consultancy, China’s cities will have added 350m people – more than the population of the US – within the next 20 years.
By 2025, there are projected to be 219 Chinese cities with more than 1m inhabitants, compared with 35 in Europe today.
Kone is a bellwether for global construction activity because its products are found in buildings ranging from apartment blocks to shopping centres around the world.
Rapid growth in China and India has helped the company overcome the downturn in Europe and North America since the financial crisis, with Asia-Pacific sales up by a third over the past year and now accounting for 22 per cent of total revenues.
Mr Alahuhta said gradual recovery was under way in US construction but warned it remained fragile as the splurge of government stimulus spending over the past two years – much of it pumped into infrastructure projects – starts to fade out.
The outlook also remained mixed in European construction, with renewed growth in northern Europe offset by continued weakness in the crisis-hit south.