一、亚太地区的区域经济合作及其前景亚太地区经济合作从六十年代开始酝酿,经过七十和八十年代探索,至今已走过30年,但仍没有出现成为现实的契机。从历史进程看,亚太经济合作不仅没有停止过,而且有时发展还是较快的。其间,亚太经济合作呈现出两种发展趋势。一方面是亚太地区大范围的经济合作即环太经济合作发展进程缓慢,目前仍处于一种无形的合作状态。早在六十年代中期就有人提出建立范围广泛的环太平洋经济共同体构想,其 I. Regional Economic Cooperation and Prospects in the Asia-Pacific Region Since the 1960s, the economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region has been brewing. After 30 years of exploration in the 1970s and 1980s, there has still not been an opportunity to become a reality. Viewed from the historical process, the Asia-Pacific economic cooperation has not only failed to stop but also developed at times. In the meantime, there are two trends in Asia-Pacific economic cooperation. On the one hand, the slow pace of economic and social cooperation over the entire Asia-Pacific region, that is, the development of the ring-Pacific economic cooperation, is still in an invisible state of cooperation. As early as the mid-1960s, some people proposed to establish a broad concept of the Pacific Economic Community