China, the world's single largest auto market, has become GM's largest market, too.

中国是世界最大的汽车市场，业已成为通用汽车最大的市场。

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For GM, the stakes are especially high: China became the world's largest auto market last year.

对通用汽车来说，这其中的利害关系尤为重大，因为中国已在去年成为了世界上最大的汽车市场。

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"They're not quite there yet. There have been some serious efforts to deal with a combination of long-standing problems in the auto industry and the current crisis which has seen the market for new cars drop from 14 million [vehicles in annual sales to nine million.

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The problem extends beyond Brazil, with economic forecasts showing the majority of global growth in auto sales taking place in emerging-market nations as the world's auto fleet doubles to 1.5 billion by 2020.

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China has passed Germany to become the third-largest auto market in the world, after the U.S. and Japan.

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All the better that the chances of success in The Greatest Nation on Earth were enough to attract Italian capital that could have been invested in the now-floundering European auto market instead.

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