中國二手車網絡拍賣公司優信獲10億元投資

HONG KONG — An online auction house for used cars in China has attracted $170 million from big name investors including the search engine company Baidu, the private equity group K.K.R. and Coatue Management, a New York investment firm.

香港——一家中國二手車網絡拍賣公司獲得了一些知名投資商的1.7億美元（約合10.5億元人民幣）投資，其中包括搜索引擎百度、私募股權公司科爾伯格-克拉維斯-羅伯茨公司（Kohlberg Kravis Roberts，簡稱KKR）和紐約投資公司蔻圖管理公司(Coatue Management)。

Uxin, which operates used-car auction websites in China that focus on dealers and businesses, said Wednesday that it would use the funds to expand a new website and mobile app aiming at individual consumers. The company also provides inspections, quality guarantees and financing for the vehicles sold on its platforms.

優信在中國運營二手車拍賣網站，主要面向經銷商和企業。公司在週三表示將會利用這筆資金開設新網站，研發針對個人消費者的移動應用程序。該公司還爲通過該平臺出售的汽車提供檢查、質量保障和融資服務。

“Uxin hopes to use the strengths of its Internet technologies and experience in the used-car market to improve the efficiency of transactions, and to help dealers identify potential buyers with greater accuracy,” Chris Dai, the chief executive of the Chinese company, said in a statement.

優信首席執行官戴琨發表聲明稱，“優信希望利用互聯網技術的優勢以及在二手車市場的豐富經驗提高交易效率，幫助經銷商更準確地識別潛在買家。”

China is the world’s biggest market for new car sales, but the market for used cars is still comparatively small. Many Chinese are first-time car buyers and see owning a new vehicle as a status symbol. The country’s used-car market has traditionally been highly fragmented and lacking information on the service and repair history of the vehicles being sold. But things appear to be changing rapidly.

中國是世界最大的新車銷售市場，但二手車市場仍然相對較小。很多中國人都是首次購車，他們認爲擁有新車是一種社會地位的象徵。中國的二手車市場向來高度分散，缺乏有關在售車輛服務及維修記錄的信息。但情況似乎正在迅速改變。

Transactions in China’s used-car market rose 26 percent in 2014 from a year earlier, to 368 billion renminbi, or about $60 billion. The number of used cars changing hands rose 16 percent to about six million vehicles in the same period, according to figures from the China Automobile Dealers Association cited by Uxin.

2014年，中國二手車市場的交易額同比增加了26％，增至3680億元人民幣。根據優信引用的中國汽車流通協會的數據，同一時期，二手車交易數量增加了16％，增至約600萬輛。

Online sales and auctions of used cars accounted for a small segment of the market, but they have the advantage of connecting buyers and sellers in different cities or provinces. Uxin said it handled more than 150,000 online and offline car auction transactions a year.

網絡銷售和二手車拍賣只佔很小一部分市場份額，但它們有聯繫不同城市或省份的買家和賣家的作用。優信表示，一年之中，它總共處理了超過15萬筆線上和線下汽車拍賣交易。

The terms of the shareholdings were not disclosed, but for Baidu, China’s biggest online search engine company, investing in Uxin gives it a new market where it can leverage its vast stores of data and large user base. For K.K.R., the deal is the latest by its China Growth Fund, which last summer invested about $400 million in a chicken breeder in Fujian Province in southeastern China.

公司尚未公佈持股情況，但是對於中國最大的網絡搜索引擎公司百度，投資優信可以給它提供一個新的市場，它可以在這個市場上利用自己的大量數據和龐大的用戶羣。對於KKR而言，這是中國成長基金(China Growth Fund)最近的一筆交易。去年夏季，該基金爲中國東南部省份福建省的一家養雞場投資了大約4億美元。

“China’s online used-car market is set to boom in the coming years, and K.K.R. is very positive about this industry and about Uxin,” Julian J. Wolhardt, the private equity company’s regional leader for China, said in the statement.

KKR大中華地區業務主管華裕能(Julian J. Wolhardt)在聲明中稱，“未來數年，中國的網上二手車市場必將得到迅速發展，KKR非常看好這個行業和優信。”