中国的黑市之城——温州
译者 一林 Bradley Gardner from the December 2011 issue Chen Mingyuan has lived here all his life, but he still gets lost every time he drives into Wenzhou. “All the roads in this town were built by businessmen, so none of them make any sense,” Chen says as we back out of what we just discovered is a one-way street. For the last 30 years, private citizens in this southeastern China metropolis have largely taken over one of the least questioned prerogatives of governments the world over: infrastructure. 陈明远(音译)一直都住在这个地方,但是他每次开车进温州市的时候仍然会迷路。当我们回到我们刚才发现的那条单行道的街道上时,陈说到,“这个镇里的所有的路都是由商人们自己修建的,所以意义不大。”过去30年,在这个中国东南的都市里,私人已经接替了政拥有最少特权的领域:基础设施建设。 Driving down the cluttered and half-constructed streets of this 3-million-strong boomtown requires frequent U-turns and the patience of Buddha, but every road eventually leads back to a factory. Each factory is in turn surrounded by a maze of roads filled with hundreds of small feeder shops selling spare parts, building materials, and scraps. Every haphazard street in this town seems to have an economic purpose.
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