中国大陆今年在全球贸易可持续性排名中下降了三位，编制该指数的机构称，这是由于经济和环境指标出现下降所致。
Mainland China fell three places this year on a global ranking for trade sustainability, tracking what the compilers of the index described as declines in economic and environmental metrics.
周二发布的《赫里希-IMD可持续贸易指数》将中国大陆列为30个主要经济体中的第19位。英国排名第一，新加坡第二，新西兰第三，香港第四。
The Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index, which was released on Tuesday, ranked the mainland 19th out of 30 major economies. The United Kingdom ranked first, Singapore second, New Zealand third and Hong Kong fourth.
该年度指数涵盖的30个经济体根据其通过国际贸易实现经济增长的能力进行评估——多边贸易协定参与是主要标准之一——同时还根据环境可持续性进行评估，这包括自然资源管理和人均排放。第三个支柱是社会因素，涵盖教育和劳工标准。
The 30 economies covered by the annual index are evaluated on their ability to grow economically through international trade – with multilateral trade deal participation a major criterion – as well as for environmental soundness, which includes natural resource management and per-capita emissions. A third pillar is societal factors covering education and labour standards.
新加坡赫里希基金会高级贸易政策分析师贾慧蒂表示，中国大陆之所以下降，主要是因为“与指数中其他经济体相比，其经济和环境表现出现了适度下降”，她补充称，“表现较弱”的宏观经济指标，如人均实际国内生产总值增长，也对排名产生了影响。
The mainland fell primarily because of “modest declines in its economic and environmental performance” compared with other economies in the index, said Jia Hui Tee, senior trade policy analyst at the Singapore-based Hinrich Foundation, adding that “weaker performance” in macroeconomic indicators such as real gross domestic product growth per capita had weighed on the ranking.
该基金会是一个专注于贸易的慈善组织，于2016年首次发布该指数，如今与瑞士IMD商学院的IMD世界竞争力中心共同发布年度排名。
The foundation, a philanthropic organisation focused on trade, first published the index in 2016 and now releases annual rankings together with the IMD World Competitiveness Centre at the IMD Business School in Switzerland.
今年上半年，中国大陆的经济产出同比增长4.7%，低于去年全年的增长幅度，反映出国内消费疲软。
The mainland’s economic output grew by 4.7 per cent year on year in the first half of this year, lower than the growth figure recorded for all of last year and tracking soft domestic consumption.
今年排名上升的经济体是那些不再将可持续性视为实现竞争力所需付出代价的经济体。《赫里希-IMD可持续贸易指数》报告称，编制机构表示，中国大陆在经济实力方面排名为30个经济体中的第7位，而去年排名第五。
The economies climbing this year are the ones that stopped treating sustainability as the price to pay for achieving competitiveness Hinrich-IMD Sustainable Trade Index report The mainland ranked seventh out of 30 on economic strengths, the compilers said, down from fifth last year.
然而，在固定资产形成总额方面，它仍然是“表现最佳”的，基金会和中心在其研究结果摘要中指出，这也提到其在出口方面具有“持续”的实力。
However, it remained the “top performer” in gross fixed capital formation, the foundation and the centre said in a summary of their findings, which also noted its “persistent” strength in exports.
蒂说，中国的环境排名下降了四位，部分原因是“能源强度表现较弱”以及对自然资源贸易的依赖增加。能源强度衡量的是生产单位经济产出所使用的能源量。
China’s environmental ranking fell by four places, Tee said, driven in part by “weaker performance on energy intensity” and higher dependence on natural resource-based trade. Energy intensity measures the amount of energy used to produce a single unit of economic output.
编纂者表示，经济和环境问题可能“在争夺关注，而关注是一种选择”，他们指出了中国以及美国。
Economic and environmental concerns might be “competing for attention, and attention is a choice”, the compilers said, calling out China as well as the United States.
该报告称，香港在性别非歧视招聘以及禁止强迫劳动和童工方面“表现有所改善”，并且也是“能源强度”方面的“表现最佳”地区。
Hong Kong saw “improved performance” on gender non-discrimination in hiring and on forced and child labour, it said, and was also the top performer in “energy intensity”.