McDonald’s will nearly double the number of restaurants in China in the next five years, eventually surpassing Japan as the second-biggest market outside the U.S.
未来五年，麦当劳在中国的门店数量将增加一倍，最终会超过日本成为除美国外的第二大国。
The company expects to have 4,500 restaurants in China by 2022, up from 2,500. With fewer people eating at U.S. locations, it hopes to grow sales in China by double digits in each of the next five years.
Slowing traffic at home has other American companies turning to China for growth. Starbucks, for example, wants to have 5,000 coffee shops in the country by 2021, more than doubling its store count.
Some chains, however, have run into trouble in China. Yum Brands, the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut, spun off its 7,500 restaurants in China into a separate company after it failed to revive declining sales.
The announcement Tuesday from McDonald’s comes a week after it completed a previously announced deal to sell most of its operations in China. McDonald’s Corp., based near Chicago in Oak Brook, Illinois, will keep a 20 percent stake in its China business.
McDonald’s said 45 percent of its restaurants in China will be in smaller cities, such as Shantou and Shijiazhuang. And 75 percent of the stores will offer delivery.
麦当劳表示，45%的门店将布局在汕头、石家庄等小型城市，75%的餐厅将提供外送服务。
There are about 37,000 McDonald’s restaurants worldwide and more than 14,000 in the U.S.
