将来数周中国各家银行将发布2007年创纪录的价值，这与其外国同行形成鲜明的对比在信贷危机之后，外国银行被迫进行了大笔减记。
Chinese banks will announce record profits for 2007 in coming weeks in contrast with their global counterparts, which have been forced into large write-offs in the wake of the credit crisis.
不过，伴随全球经济放缓的影响蔓延至中国，与中国政府试图为经济降温并遏制通胀的不断上升，2008年的挑战将大得多。
But 2008 will be much more challenging as a global slowdown spills over into China and the government attempts to cool the economy and head off rising inflation.
中国一些规模最大的银行包含中国工商银行和中国交通银行已经表示，其2007年营业额同比增长逾60%，剖析师表示，整个行业的净收益水平也出现了同等幅度的增长。
Some of the countrys biggest banks, including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Bank of Communications, have already said their earnings1 rose by more than 60 per cent year-on-year in 2007 and analysts3 say net profits for the industry grew by a similar amount.
依据国内媒体刊登的预估数字，中国所有国内银行的税前收益总额为6100亿元人民币（合854亿USD），较此前一年增长83%。不过剖析师称，在发布年报之前，非常难证实这类数字。
Estimates published in domestic media put pre-tax profits for all domestic banks at Rmb610bn , an 83 per cent increase from a year earlier, although analysts said it was hard to confirm the figure before annual reports have been released.
里昂证券驻香港的金融机构研究主管陈志铭表示：2007年对于银行来讲是非凡的一年，但第四季度已略见疲软，而2008将困难得多。它们将遭到现在行政手段和资产水平降低的影响。
2007 was a fantastic year for the banks but the fourth quarter saw some weakness already and 2008 will be a lot harder, according to Dominic Chan, director of financial institutions research at CLSA in Hong Kong. They are going to be hurt by ongoing4 administrative5 measures and erosion in asset quality.
中国各银行正面临信贷过剩及政府试图控制信贷规模的局面。穆迪驻香港的银行业剖析师华志行表示：银行去年各方面运转好，它们所有主要业务范围都表现很好。但它们今年的表现将取决于中国政府的货币紧缩政策，政府不太可能飞速舍弃紧缩政策。
Chinas lenders are dealing6 with an over-abundance of credit and the governments attempts to rein7 it in. The banks were firing on all cylinders8 last year and all their major areas of business did well, said Leo Wah, a banking9 analyst2 with Moodys in Hong Kong. But their performance this year depends on the Chinese governments policy of monetary10 tightening11, which it is unlikely to abandon soon.
面对1月份总体消费价格指数升至7.1%的11年高点的局面，中国政府已向国内及外资银行下达了限制性信贷增长额度，试图为经济降温。
Faced with headline consumer inflation that hit an 11-year high of 7.1 per cent in January, the government has issued restrictive loan growth quotas12 to Chinese and foreign banks in an attempt to cool the economy.
