英美文化入门(一)unit5The UK Economy.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,THE UK ECONOMY,1.Absolute Decline And Relative Decline,(1),(2),2.Recent History,(1),3.The current UK Econ0my,(1),(2),4.Case Study:The Aerospace Industry,(1),(2),Absolute Decline And Relative Decline,Changes of the UKs economy,(1).By the 1880s,the British economy took advantage over any other countries in the world.,(2).By 1990,the UK has been overtaken by USA and Germany.,(3).1945-now,it was a decline.,UKs real situation,Firstly,the war has put UK into heavy debt.,Secondly,many colonies has gained independence from Britain.,Thirdly,UK has invested too much on military but it didnt receive any economic return.,Fourthly,the British industry continued with its older factories and pre-war products while other countries were developing.,Planes that used during the war,They were made with advanced technology!,UKs investments,Britain had low rates of investment when comparing with other countries.,It had a loose relationship between industry and banks.,The industrial firms had been used to finance their own development.,Banks in UK had no choice but to look overseas for investment chances.,The truth,The existing basic,problems,resulted in the,decline of British,economy.,In fact,Britain,had also made,many progress,however,others,improved more rapidly.,BACK,THE UK ECONOMY,Recent history,British economy went through a bad period in the 1970s,.,Car industry failed in the exports it increased in imports,A sign reading,Sorry No Petrol,outside a service station during a petrol shortage on,February 1978,An election in 1979,Laissez faire(,自由主义政策,)was carried out,The positive aspect was that the British economy picked up.However,the policy greatly increased unemployment of the society.,The result is.the state had to support more and more unemployment and the whole national economy continued to grow at lower rates than its competitors.In the recession 1990_1992,the economy even shrunk by 2.3%.,Be brilliant since then,First:Steady growth(at rates higher than that in the rest of the EU),Second:Employment has fallen to 7.7%,Third:Steady growth(at rates higher than that in the rest of the EU),back,The Current UK Economy,A.Primary industries:,1)Agricultural sector produces,1.4%of the national wealth,with only 2%of its workforce.,2)The BSE disease 3)The fish industry,4).Energy industry is an important part,accounting for 5%of the national wealth.,a.Rich oil,gas,and nuclear energy resources,b.An overall exporter of energy.,Three biggest companies:Shell(half Dutch),British Petroleum(BP),and,British Gas,Worlds largest mining company:RTZ(Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd,里奥廷托锌有限公司,),C.A low carbon economy,A North Sea Oil Rig,B.Secondary industries:,1.manufacturing,industry producing,22%of national,wealth.,British companies are particularly strong in chemicals(ICT),pharmaceuticals(GlaxoWellcome),2.electronics industry:car industry,a high-technology engineering industry(McClaren and Williams),C.Tertiary industries:a spectacular growth,1.producing 65%of national wealth,2.domestic activity:retailing,tourism and so on.,3.the major international provider of services,4.London is one of the top three financial,centres,in the world (The City),5.Advertising business.,BACK,The Aerospace Industry,In March 2,1969,，,the first flight of Concorde was success in Toulouse.In April 2,1969,the first flight of the British Concorde was success.This is the worlds first and only plane which does not design after the supersonic flight.By the end of 1975,it put into use after the Britain obtains the type certificate.January 21,1976,it was put into commercial flight.,(,In the early 1960,France began to develop a new kind of close support/Trainer.Originally,it was just the design of 590 kg payload super light plan.But with the efforts of UK,the performance of the specifications was improved.With the substantially redesign,it evolved into todays Europe Jaguar supersonic attack/Trainer,.),In 1967,it started to been put into development.At the beginning of 1974,the Bobcats were batch produced and used for the troops,.,END,1.,成汝静,2.,时磊,3.,陈文兰,4.,刘超,5.,沈子博,6.,陶露,7.,钱蓉,