我们先来看1996年度美国最大的14家制药企业的状况。从这14家企业的收入平均为73.16亿美元,平均比上年增长8％;平均获取利润为13.68亿美元,平均比上年增长4％;收入利润率平均为15％,资产利润率平均为12％,平均每家雇员3.4万人。 Let us first look at the status of the largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies in 1996. The income from these 14 companies averaged 7.316 billion U.S. dollars, an average increase of 8% over the previous year; the average profit earned was 1.368 billion U.S. dollars, an average increase of 4% over the previous year; the average income rate was 15%, and the average profit rate of assets was 12%, an average of 34,000 employees per employee.