Tencent sales squeezed by slowdown in domestic gaming
国内游戏销售乏力挤压腾讯营收
Chinese tech group’s profit rises by a third as it seeks better margins from areas such as advertising
这家中国社交媒体和游戏集团报告第二季度营收同比增长11%，达1492亿元人民币，增幅逊于预期，而净利润增长33%，至375亿元人民币。
Tencent’s cost-cutting measures helped boost profit by a third but revenues missed estimates as anaemic domestic gaming sales and weak consumer confidence fed into the Chinese tech giant’s patchy performance.
腾讯(Tencent)的成本削减措施帮助利润增长了三分之一，但这家中国科技巨头的营收逊于预期，国内游戏销售乏力和消费者信心疲弱造成有好有坏的业绩。
Revenue increased a worse than expected 11 per cent to Rmb149.2bn ($20.4bn) in the quarter that ended in June, compared with a year earlier, the social media and gaming group reported on Wednesday, while net profit rose 33 per cent to Rmb37.5bn.
这家社交媒体和游戏集团周三报告称，第二季度营收同比增长11%，达1492亿元人民币（合204亿美元），增幅逊于预期，而净利润增长33%，至375亿元人民币。
A combination of “careful cost discipline” and “gravitation towards high-quality revenue streams with better margins”, such as advertising, had contributed to profit growth exceeding revenue improvement, Tencent’s chair and chief executive Pony Ma said on Wednesday.
腾讯董事会主席兼首席执行官马化腾(Pony Ma)周三表示，“严谨成本纪律”与“向更高利润率的优质收入来源倾斜”（比如广告）相结合，使利润增速超出营收增速。
