Chinese firms are feeling burdened by rising costs amid downward economic pressure, a report showed last Monday.

上周一，一份报告显示，在经济下行压力下，我国企业感到日益上涨的成本造成了他们的负担。

About 56% of the surveyed 6,000-plus firms said they are under heavy pressure due to rising costs of labor, financing, land and other production factors, according to a report released by a subsidiary with the Ministry¹ of Industry and Information Technology dedicated² to facilitating development of small- and medium-sized enterprises.

由工信部中小企业发展促进中心发布的报告称，由于人工成本、融资成本、土地成本和其他生产要素成本不断上涨，在6000多家受访企业中，约56%表示他们的负担较重。

About 46 percent of them complained about rising labor costs while 28 percent said they were facing larger financing costs.

有46%的企业认为人工成本负担加重，28%的企业认为融资成本加重。

But the majority of the surveyed firms were satisfied with the current charges for business registration³ and management and reported marked drops in unregulated fee collection.

不过，大部分受访企业对目前企业注册、管理的收费状况感到满意，并表示乱收费现象已明显减少。

China decided⁴ early this year to reduce the ratio of social insurance and housing provident⁵ funds that enterprises have to pay for their employees, and help them reduce costs of over 200 billion yuan ($29.5 billion) by mid 2017.

今年初，我国决定降低企业必须为员工缴纳的社会保险和住房公积金的比例，到2017年年中预计将帮助企业减轻负担约2000亿元（折合295亿美元）。