This week George Osborne announced steps to make London a global trading hub for China’s currency. If the internationalisation of the renminbi proceeds and the chancellor of the exchequer’s plan succeeds, London will – so it is hoped – again flourish as a leading financial centre. The nature of that flourishing could well differ from what we saw before 2008, but the prosperity will feel the same. Can it happen? Yes. Will it happen? That depends on a number of considerations. Will it be a good thing? Almost surely.
上周，英國財政大臣喬治?奧斯本(George Osborne)宣布了使倫敦發(fā)展為人民幣離岸交易中心的舉措。如果人民幣的國際化進(jìn)程繼續(xù)推進(jìn)、奧斯本的計劃取得成功，那么倫敦將如人們希望的那樣，作為主要金融中心再度迎來繁榮。此次繁榮的性質(zhì)很可能與我們在2008年以前看到的有所不同，但其帶給人們的感受將是一樣的。那么，這種繁榮有無可能出現(xiàn)呢？當(dāng)然有可能。是否必將出現(xiàn)呢？這取決于若干因素。這種繁榮是件好事？這幾乎是肯定的。