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Milan: Well-Dressed and Ahead of the Pack
Milan holds a track record as a prestigious city from as far back as the third century. Not surprisingly, it has continuously upheld the title as economic and cultural capital of the newly formed Kingdom of Italy, declared thus in 1861. In late 2014, Milan accounted for 10 percent of the country's total GDP, and its exports were valued at ��36.9 million. Milan and its surrounding region of Lombardy have a strong labor market highly differentiated across manufacturing, commerce, finance, publishing, fashion, media and service sectors. The current unemployment rate of 8.1 is a full third lower than the country's average of 12.2. Future growth is predicted in urban infrastructure projects, pharmaceutics and biotech.
Outsiders' views of Italy's current commercial potential vary. In February 2015, the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar acquired the new Milanese business district of Porta Nuova, reported to have a market value of more than ��2 billion. However, Italy's largest fashion retailer, OVS, had a lukewarm debut on the Milan Stock Exchange in March, betraying investors' distrust of the firm's heavy reliance on the listless domestic market. Meanwhile, Reuters expects the national economy to increase by 0.6 percent in 2015, the first growth since mid-2011.
米蘭：歐陸的經濟與時尚重鎮
米蘭早在三世紀時就保有知名城市的記錄。不出意料地，在 1861 年宣佈成立的義大利王國，米蘭繼續維持經濟與文化首都的頭銜。在 2014 年年底，米蘭占義大利整體國內生產毛額的 10%，出口值為 3,690 萬歐元。米蘭及其周圍的倫巴第區擁有強大且具高度區隔性的勞動市場，橫跨製造業、商業、金融業、出版業、時尚業、媒體業與服務業。米蘭目前的失業率為 8.1，比全國平均失業率的 12.2 整整低了三分之一。未來經濟成長預計將出現在都市基礎建設計畫、製藥業與生物科技方面。
外人對義大利目前商業潛力的看法眾說紛紜。卡達主權財富基金於 2015 年二月買下米蘭的新商業區新門，據報市值逾 20 億歐元。不過，義大利最大的時尚零售商 OVS 在三月於米蘭證券交易所的首次掛牌卻反應冷淡，透露投資人因該公司過度依賴疲乏的國內市場而缺乏信心。另一方面，路透社則預期該國經濟在 2015 年會上升 0.6%，這是自 2011 年年中以來的首次成長。
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