金門首家市區免稅店開張

The opening ceremony of Kinmen's first downtown duty free shop, held on the 16th, was attended by Kinmen magistrate Li, Wo-Shi, who expects this shop to be "a leading sheep" as taking the lead for traveler shopping trend, thus bringing further development to the Kinmen tourist industry.
金門第1家市區免稅商店16日開張，金門縣長李沃士期盼金坊免稅商店擔任領頭羊，開啟購物旅遊的新風潮，帶動金門觀光發展。

Located at No.2 Boyu Road, the Jing-Fang Duty-Free Shop was the first to open among five enterprises approved by the Kinmen County Government in October. Guests from all fields joined the grand opening making the event a big hit.
位於伯玉路2段的金坊免稅商店，是金門縣政府10月評選出5家免稅商店中率先開幕的第1家。開幕式現場賀客盈門，熱滾滾。

Magistrate Li showed special thanks to the Ever Rich Duty Free Shop and the Jing-Fang Duty Free Shop (one of the Ever Rich's subsidiary) for their recruitment of 110 young people in Kinmen. He also stated that with Kinmen's urgent need to create employment opportunities, endeavors (1) made by the private sector will in turn relieve (2) pressure on the government. Li hopes that with the Every Rich Duty Free Shop as a leading sheep, more shops will be opened for business as soon as possible, thus increasing employment opportunity and profits of the county government.
縣長李沃士特別感謝昇恆昌公司及其子公司金坊國際股份有限公司，透過免稅商店晉用了一百一十位年輕的金門子弟，他說，金門很需要創造就業機會，民間的活力愈旺盛，才能減輕政府的壓力。他希望有了昇恆昌的領頭羊，其他幾家市區免稅店能儘速跟進開業，提供更多就業機會，也助益縣政府的財源收入。

In addition, Magistrate Li also hopes that the duty free quota of $30,000 can be more flexible in outer island duty free shops and eventually lifted to even allow unlimited duty-free consumption for mainland tourists, thus further developing the tourist industry in Kinmen.
此外，李沃士也希望，離島免稅店購買限額為三萬元，未來希望能爭取提高免稅限額，甚至爭取大陸觀光客能免稅消費無上限，真正帶動金門觀光產業發展。


【註解】
●1. endeavor-(n)努力。
●2. relieve-(vt.)緩和、減輕、解除。

本文摘譯、改寫自《金門日報》2010年12月17日報導