小米總裁稱公司去年銷售額翻番
The chairman of the Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi, a rising star of the consumer technology industry, said that sales more than doubled last year to $12.2 billion and that the company planned to expand further into global markets.
中國智能手機品牌小米是消費技術行業的後起之秀，該公司董事長說，去年小米的銷售額增長一倍有餘，達122億美元，該公司計劃進一步在全球市場上擴張。Xiaomi, a five-year-old company, sold 61.1 million handsets, a 227 percent increase over 2013.
小米公司誕生於五年前，去年它售出6110萬部手機，比2013年增長227%。
Revenue rose 135 percent to 74.3 billion renminbi, or $12.2 billion, the chairman, Lei Jun, wrote on his company blog.
小米董事長雷軍在公司博客上表示，公司營收743億元人民幣，同比增長135%。
Xiaomi overtook Samsung Electronics in the second quarter of last year and became China’s biggest-selling smartphone brand by number of handsets sold. The privately held company, based in Beijing, recently completed a round of fund-raising from investors that Mr. Lei said valued Xiaomi at $45 billion, making it one of the world’s most valuable technology brands.
以手機銷售數量而言，去年第二季度，小米超越三星電子(Samsung Electronics)，成爲中國最暢銷的智能手機品牌。這家民營公司總部設在北京，最近從投資者處完成了一輪融資。雷軍說，據此小米估值爲450億美元，這讓它成爲了世界上最具價值的科技品牌之一。Xiaomi plans to expand further abroad after selling a million handsets last year in India, its biggest foreign market, Mr. Lei said, though he gave no indication which markets it might focus on.
小米最大的國外市場是印度，去年它在那裏銷售了一百萬部手機，該公司計劃在海外進一步擴張，雷軍說，不過他沒有明確表示小米可能重點關注哪些市場。Xiaomi ran into legal trouble in India in December after a court blocked sales of some handsets while it heard a complaint by Ericcson of Sweden that the Chinese company violated its patents.
去年12月，小米在印度遇到了法律上的麻煩：由於瑞典愛立信(Ericcson)稱小米公司侵犯了它的專利，印度一所法院禁止該公司銷售一些手機。Mr. Lei called the case a “rite of passage” for a young company.
雷軍稱這個案子是一家年輕公司的“成年禮”。
