不幸的是，由于出口部门为数千万工人提供了就业岗位，导致这种依赖已经转变为一种结构性问题，而这意味着，降低中国的贸易依存度和贸易顺差已经不单单是调整宏观经济政策所能解决的问题。
Unfortunately, with a large export sector that employs scores of millions of workers, this dependence has become structural, which implies that to reduce China’s trade dependency and trade surplus is much more than a matter of adjusting macroeconomic policy.