Investment on China's artworks decreases

时间：2007-05-12 02:31:47

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Chinanews, Beijing, May 11 – Investment on China’s artwork is decreasing in 2007. The average price of China’s artworks is declining and fewer and fewer artworks are sold out.

 

According to statistics collected in 2005 and 2006, the number of collectors and investors1 of China’s artworks reached 70 million, or 6% of China’s total population. The trading volume is also amount to 20 billion yuan. But experts are then worried that bubbles might appear in the artworks market existed bubble, as the booming artworks market will not last long.

 

It is estimated that a painting sold in 2004 for 300 thousand yuan, can only be sold at 100 thousand yuan this year. A collector revealed that he bought a painting by a famous painter in 2003, hoping to make some profits, but now its price has slumped2 and he has lost 120 thousand yuan for the sale.

 

Zhou Yueping, a manager of a Hangzhou painting shop, said that investment on artworks is more complicated than investment on securities and real estate. But he also pointed3 out that investors have become more reasonable, which indicates that the artworks market is becoming more mature.

 
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1 investors dffc64354445b947454450e472276b99     
n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
2 slumped b010f9799fb8ebd413389b9083180d8d     
大幅度下降，暴跌( slump的过去式和过去分词 )； 沉重或突然地落下[倒下]
参考例句：
  • Sales have slumped this year. 今年销售量锐减。
  • The driver was slumped exhausted over the wheel. 司机伏在方向盘上，疲惫得睡着了。
3 pointed Il8zB4     
adj.尖的，直截了当的
参考例句：
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

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