科技兴贸——我国由贸易大国走向贸易强国的必由之路 据海关统计,1999年我国对外贸易总额达3607亿美元。我国对外贸易在世界贸易中的排位由1978年的第32位上升到1999年的第9位,我国已经成为世界贸易大国。 据世界贸易组织提供的资料,目前世界十大贸易国的高科技产品出口占其总出口的比重平均达到40％,而出口居世界第九位的我国,这一比重仅为13％。从亚洲金融危机对东南亚各国和地区的影响来看在亚洲四小龙中,新加坡和台湾受到的影 Prospering through Science and Technology - The Only Way for China to Move from a Powerful Trade Power to a Powerful Trade According to the statistics of the Customs, in 1999 China’s foreign trade amounted to 360.7 billion U.S. dollars. China’s foreign trade ranking in world trade rose from 32nd in 1978 to 9th in 1999. Our country has become a world trading power. According to information provided by the World Trade Organization, the proportion of the world’s top ten trading nations in exporting high-tech products to their total exports has reached 40% on average, while that of China, the ninth largest exporter in the world, is only 13%. In terms of the impact of the Asian financial crisis on various Southeast Asian countries and regions, in the four small dragons in Asia, the impact on Singapore and Taiwan