美国通用汽车公司星期一申请破产，这是作为美国政府主导的改组有百年历史而目前处境艰难的通用汽车公司计划的一部分。
一度曾经是世界上最大汽车制造商的通用汽车公司提出了免于债权人追究责任的破产保护申请。通用汽车公司几个月来一直试图调整其业务计划以扭亏为盈。
作为结构调整努力的一部分，通用汽车公司官员说，除了先前宣布的裁减之外，他们打算再关闭或闲置12家工厂及其他一些设施。
通用汽车公司尽管获得大约200亿美元的政府援助，通用汽车仍未能从汽车销售大幅度下跌的局面中恢复过来。
美国政府预计将额外提供300亿美元帮助通用汽车公司通过美国历史上最大企业破产进行重组。(加拿大政府和加拿大安大略省政府也保证向通用汽车公司提供95亿美元贷款。)
The U.S. automaker General Motors filed for bankruptcy Monday as part of a government-led plan to restructure the struggling 100 year-old company.
Once the world’s largest carmaker, GM filed for court protection from creditors after spending months trying to restructure its business plan to become profitable.
As part of the restructuring effort, GM officials say they are closing or idling 12 more factories and some other facilities in addition to previously-announced cuts.
Despite receiving about $20 billion in government aid, GM has not recovered from a drastic drop in car sales.
The U.S. government is expected to provide an additional $30 billion to help restructure GM through the largest industrial bankruptcy in U.S. history. (The governments of Canada and the Canadian province of Ontario have also pledged $9.5 billion to GM.)