泛亚金属交易所投资者赴京请愿
Angry Chinese investors who lost money in a metals trading exchange financing scheme gone awry have appealed to Beijing to investigate the matter.
在一金属交易所融资计划出现问题后，遭遇损失的愤怒的中国投资者呼吁中国政府调查此事。
Armed with Chinese flags and photos of premier Li Keqiang, protesters rallied on Monday in front of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in Beijing. The protesters had earlier registered a petition with 1,000 names to the petitions office, the threshold for bringing a case to the attention of the state council, China’s cabinet
周一，抗议者举着中国国旗和国务院总理李克强的照片，聚集在中国证监会(CSRC)门口。抗议者之前曾向国家信访局递交一份有1000人签名的请愿书，上访是使案子引起国务院注意的必经之路。
Fanya Metals Exchange, which stockpiled minor metals including indium and bismuth, stopped payouts on high interest rate investment products after it suffered liquidity problems this spring.
泛亚有色金属交易所(Fanya Metals Exchange)囤积铟和铋等稀有金属，今年春季，在遭遇流动性危机后，该公司已停止兑付其高息投资产品。
The freeze has caused international minor metals prices to slide sharply and led to protests by well-heeled investors in the southwestern city of Kunming and in Shanghai, the country’s financial centre.
流动性冻结导致国际稀有金属价格大幅下跌，并促使富有投资者在西南城市昆明和中国金融中心上海发起抗议。
The exchange’s liquidity freeze comes as slowing growth raises concerns over the health of financing products that funnel money from individual investors to shadow loans offering higher interest rates.
在该交易所流动性冻结之际，经济增速放缓引发了人们对于融资产品健康状况的担忧，这些产品将个人投资者的资金投资于支付较高利息的影子贷款。
“We have been filing our complaints locally but it didn’t work out so the only way for us is to come to Beijing to petition the central government,” said Chen Qiaohong, a businessman from Jiangsu who has Rmb5m ($785,000) frozen with the exchange.
来自江苏的商人陈桥宏表示：“我们已在当地起诉，但没有立案，因此唯一的办法是到北京向中央政府请愿。”他有500万元人民币 (合78.5万美元)投资在该交易所冻结。
Protesters were joined by sales agents from distribution groups that had been hired to sell the exchange’s investment products. Agents said they were told by exchange founder Shan Jiuliang that he could not meet obligations to the distributors, many of whom had invested in the products as well as selling them. Mr Shan did not answer calls to his mobile phone.
抗议者队伍中还包括被聘出售该交易所投资产品的分销机构的销售代理。这些销售代理表示，该交易所创始人单九良告诉他们，他无法履行对分销机构的承诺，其中很多分销机构在销售这些产品的同时还投资于这些产品。单九良没有接听记者的致电。
