【正确答案】The Auction Trade
After a year of readjustment, the auction trade radiated fresh vitality at the end of last year and was appraised by domestic mass media as one of China' s 10 booming trades in 1997. Zheng Yux-iang is a veteran art lover. According to him, the current service of the auction trade is being improved , variety increased and quality raised. " These desirable changes are mainly the result of orderly competition among various auction houses in the process of standardization," he said. " We are clearly aware that the number of people participating in art transactions through auctions is increasing. " The auction trade also brought vitality to other trades. According to an official from the Ministry of Internal Trade the state has stipulated that bankrupt enterprises will primarily be auctioned off, so that auctions will become an important method for the re-allocation of state assets in the future.