|
Smartphone maker Xiaomi has become one of the biggest Chinese brands to be publicly criticised by the state television station CCTV, after a report on Sunday night attacked the quality of its charging units. 中国智能手机制造商小米(Xiaomi)已成为受到官方的中央电视台批评的最大本土品牌之一，周日晚播出的一个栏目抨击了小米充电宝的质量。 In a measure of how far Xiaomi has come in just four years as a technology company, it has now joined Apple and Nikon in being censured on air. Previously, CCTV had criticised Apple for threatening Chinese national security with its iPhone location features; and Nikon for failing to remove spots from the lens of its D600 camera. 小米就此加入苹果(Apple)和尼康(Nikon)等大品牌的行列，受到央视的谴责，这突显出这家科技公司在短短4年里取得的进展有多大。此前央视曾批评苹果的iPhone定位功能对中国的国家安全构成威胁，而尼康未能去除其D600相机镜头的斑点 CCTV has also singled out the US coffee shop chain Starbucks – which has more than 1,000 branches in China – for being too expensive. 央视还曾把矛头指向星巴克(Starbucks)，称这家在中国有1000多家分店的美国咖啡连锁店要价过高。 Some analysts say this focus on foreign brands was driven by economic nationalism and a corruption-fighting zeal – which plays well with Chinese viewers. | 
