VOA常速英语2015--菲律宾考虑建设国防经济区（在线收听）

菲律宾考虑建设国防经济区

Each day 200,000 bullets are produced at the Government Arsenal.

政府军工厂每天生产200000枚子弹。

But it is not enough to supply the Philippine Armed Forces with the ammunition it requires.

但这并不能满足菲律宾武装部队的弹药所需。

That's according to the facility's director, Jonathan Martir,who says he wants to open a defense economic zone, a tax-free place for foreign arms manufacturers to make more and better weapons for the Philippines.

这座设施工厂的主管乔纳森·玛特尔表示他想开放一个国防经济开发区,供外国军火制造商为菲律宾制造出更多更好武器的一处免税之地。

“We're going to achieve self-reliance simply because we're going to manufacture here in the Philippines... imagine us manufacturing high level equipment, weaponry, that we've never manufactured before.”

“我们希望能够实现自力更生,因为我们要在菲律宾本地进行生产…想象我们制造之前从未生产过的高级装备,武器。”

Upgrading the country's aging arsenal is just one part of the plan.

为国家的老龄化武器更新换代只是这项计划的一部分。

Manila is also conducting joint exercises with Japanese and American forces, improving the country's ability to patrol and secure its thousands of remote islands.

马尼拉正同日本，美国部队进行联合军事演习,提高这个国家巡逻及确保成千上万偏远岛屿安全的能力。

Beijing has built military outposts in parts of the South China Sea,known here as the West Philippine Sea.

中国已在自己的南海地区建立军事前哨站,而在菲律宾这个国家，这片区域被称为西菲律宾海。

That includes a landing strip on a once-submerged reef.

包括曾一度淹埋在礁上的着陆跑道。