中国阻止软银以54亿美元收购ABB机器人业务

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ADAM SATARIANO2026年11月6日​Chinese authorities thwarted a multibillion-dollar effort by the Japanese tech giant SoftBank to expand further into robotics, showing Beijing’s willingness to intervene in global business deals that may impact its own technology ambitions.中国监管部门阻止了日本科技巨头软银一项价值数十亿美元的机器人业务扩张计划,显示出北京愿意干预可能影响自身技术发展雄心的全球商业交易。On Thursday, ABB, a Swiss-Swedish industrial company, said that the sale of its robotics division to SoftBank for $5.4 billion, which was announced last year, had been blocked by a Chinese regulator that conducts national security reviews of foreign investments.周四,瑞士-瑞典工业公司ABB表示,去年宣布的以54亿美元将其机器人部门出售给软银的交易遭到中国一家负责对外国投资进行国家安全审查的监管机构否决。China’s approval was needed for the SoftBank acquisition to move ahead in part because so much of ABB’s sales come from the country. At a factory in Shanghai, ABB produces a variety of products, mainly used for manufacturing and automating tasks like handling heavy materials and polishing.软银的这笔收购需要获得中国批准,部分原因是ABB有很大一部分销售收入来自中国。ABB在上海设有一家工厂,生产多种产品,主要用于制造业,以及重型物料搬运、抛光等作业的自动化。China is taking an aggressive approach to reviewing foreign deals involving key technology and sensitive industries. In April, regulators forced Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of the Chinese A.I. start-up Manus.中国正采取更为强硬的方式审查涉及关键技术和敏感行业的外国企业交易。今年4月,监管机构迫使Meta撤销了以20亿美元收购中国人工智能初创企业Manus的交易。To block the Manus deal, authorities cited national security concerns, a move seen as signaling the government’s determination to keep important technology and talented engineers from being acquired by foreign companies.在阻止Manus收购案时,中国当局以国家安全问题为由采取行动。外界认为,此举表明中国政府决心防止重要技术和优秀工程人才被外国企业收购。China’s scrutiny of foreign deals is raising concerns about operating in the country as technology development takes on more strategic importance in government planning. Regulators in the United States, European Union and Britain have also intervened in deals involving semiconductors, quantum computing and other technology.随着技术发展在政府规划中的战略地位日益突出,中国对外国企业交易的严格审查也让企业对在华经营产生了更多顾虑。美国、欧盟和英国的监管机构同样曾干预涉及半导体、量子计算及其他技术领域的交易。ABB, based in Zurich, has decades-long ties to Chinese manufacturing businesses, which gives it access to valuable data on robotics technology. China is ABB’s largest robotics market and about 90 percent of its machines built for Chinese customers are manufactured locally. The company employs thousands of people in the country.ABB总部位于苏黎世,与中国制造业企业有着长达数十年的联系,因此能够获取宝贵的机器人技术数据。中国是ABB最大的机器人业务市场,该公司为中国客户生产的机器约有90%在当地制造。ABB在中国雇用了数千名员工。Chinese authorities were concerned about robotics data being transferred overseas and used to train A.I. models, according to The Financial Times, which first reported that the deal was blocked.据最先报道这笔交易遭到否决的《金融时报》称,中国当局担心机器人相关数据被转移至海外,用于训练人工智能模型。China’s intervention is a major blow to SoftBank and its founder, Masayoshi Son, one of the tech industry’s biggest believers in artificial intelligence. He has staked his company’s future on the technology and has viewed robots as the essential link between the technology and the physical world.中国的干预对软银及其创始人孙正义是一个重大打击,他是科技行业最坚定的人工智能支持者之一。他把公司的未来押在这项技术上,并认为机器人是连接人工智能与现实物理世界的关键纽带。Yet concerns have grown that Mr. Son has put too much emphasis on A.I. SoftBank has invested roughly $65 billion in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and billions more into data center businesses.然而,外界越来越担心孙正义过度押注人工智能。软银已向ChatGPT的开发商OpenAI投资约650亿美元,并向数据中心业务投入了数十亿美元。On Thursday, shares of SoftBank fell almost 7 percent and are down nearly 30 percent over the past year. The Democratic sweep in the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday also hit the shares of some big tech firms, as many of the winning governors and legislators have pushed for stricter oversight of the A.I. build-out, which could slow its expansion.周四,软银股价下跌近7%,过去一年累计跌幅接近30%。民主党在周二美国中期选举中的全面胜利,也拖累了一些大型科技公司的股价,因为许多胜选的州长和议员一直主张加强对人工智能基础设施建设的监管,这可能拖慢相关项目的扩张步伐。A spokesman for SoftBank did not respond to messages seeking comment.软银发言人没有回复置评请求。Adam Satariano是《纽约时报》科技记者,常驻伦敦。翻译:纽约时报中文网点击查看本文英文版。获取更多RSS:https://feedx.net https://feedx.site