消費券（中国）

NYT by Keith Bradsher

消費券：shopping voucher

Hanzhou officials hope the coupons will stimulate buying and aver the worst of an economic downturn that has eviscerated factory after factory here.
make it weaker

Conditioned to save for medical expenses and old age, they sock away more than one-fourth of their incomes.

Sock: 溜め込む、へそくり（こないだ会議で出なかった!!)

People dare not to spend more because of the underdevelopment of the social welfare system.
(社会保障システムの未発達から、人々はより多く消費しようとはしない。）

Hundreds of millions of others face crippling bills for treatment of serious illness that are not covered by rudimentary insurance programs.
(何千万人もの人々は原始的な保険プログラムによってはカバーされない深刻な疾病の治療の深刻な支払いに直面している。）