从新世纪开始,我国将进入全面建设小康社会,加快推进社会主义现代化的发展阶段。对外,我国即将加入WTO;对内,西部大开发战略正在深入推进。 港口是经济发展、国际贸易和海运业重要和关键的一环。天津港是中国北方最大的国际贸易港口。在2000年,天津港已完成港口货物吞吐量9566万吨,集装箱吞吐量170万标准箱,正在向亿吨大港迈进。 Starting from the new century, our country will enter the stage of development in building an overall well-to-do society and accelerating the socialist modernization. Externally, our country is about to join the WTO; the strategy of developing the western and western regions is being further promoted. Ports are an important and crucial part of economic development, international trade and shipping. Tianjin Port is the largest international trade port in northern China. In 2000, Tianjin Port completed a port cargo throughput of 95.66 million tons and a container throughput of 1.7 million TEUs.