大侠行天下日记 我见我闻我思 0521

德州休斯敦经济復甦

週五中午休斯敦外交领事团成员应邀参加了大商会主办的経济前途展望午餐会， 大商会会长哈威在会上表示 ，大休斯敦及德州経济发展前途仍然审慎乐观， 并表示已经回復到疫情前的水平。

将近二年半前第一宗新冠肺炎在中国大陆武汉发现之后， 全球将近有五亿人感染， 六百二十万人死亡 ，其中包括一百多万的美国人在内 ，在大休斯敦地区有一百六十万人感染，将近一万六千人去世， 每四百五十个患者中就有一人不幸身亡 ，这是非常可怕的数字。

経济復甦是从二 o 二o年中开始， 到今年四月份美国全国失去之工作已経有百分之九十四点六重返岗位， 其中包括教育 、政府工作 、医疗、餐饮零售业都已回到疫情前之水平， 但是建筑 、能源、 旅馆、 技工等还在努力阶段。

大休斯敦地区的港口出口业务也强劲增加， 到四月份為止总值超过一千四百亿。

国际旅游也因疫情之减缓而使布什国际机场人流回到疫情前之水準， 总之， 大商会对於德州经济还是充满信心。

近年来， 包括许多加州人在内不断迁入德州， 其主要原因还是此地房地產相对低， 工作机会多而且没有州所得税， 这是德州经济比其他地区表现良好最主要之原因。

不过许多专家仍然忧虑美联储增息太快会造成经济衰退 ，俄乌战争， 中美关係是影响世界和平和稳定之因素。

Greater Houston Recovery Nearly Complete

The mission of the Greater Houston Partnership is to make Houston one of the world’s best places to live, work and to build a business. The Partnership works to ensure that Houston places among the world’s greatest global cities by promoting economic development, foreign trade and investment. It serves the 12-county greater Houston region and represents 900+ member companies.

On Friday, the Greater Houston Partnership sponsored a luncheon and invited the Houston Consular Corp and its many members to talk about the Global Houston Economic outlook.

Two and one-half years have passed since the first Covid-19 case was detected in Wuhan, China. Since then, more than 500 million people have contracted the virus worldwide and over 6.2 million have died. The U.S. was hit hardest by the virus, logging 81 million infections and more than one million people lost their lives. In the metro Houston area, 1.6 million residents, one of every five, contracted the virus and nearly 16.000, one of every 45 have died. It is just so horrible that the pandemic caused so many cases and caused the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

The recovery which began in mid-2020 accelerated last year. As of April, 2022, the U.S. had recovered 94.6 percent of jobs lost and the U.S. gross domestic product now exceeds pre-pandemic levels.

Recently many people have moved to the Texas area because we have a very good business climate and lower housing prices, plus, we don’t have a personal income tax.

But still, we are very worried about the war, inflation and rising prices. Unless all these can be put under control, we still are facing a recession in the near future.