北京有家经济报纸今年元旦发表一篇迎接新千年的社论。社论从１６００年意大利传教士利玛窦进北京供奉皇上的时钟、地图等供品谈起 ,围绕开放与封闭这个题目展开论述。社论说 :“中国文化未曾发生类似西方世界发生的那种不可逆转的制度创新。只是在第二个千年的最后１５０年 , An Economic Newspaper in Beijing issued an editorial to greet the new millennium this New Year’s Day. The editorial began with a discussion on the subject of openness and closure from the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci’s visit to Beijing in 1600 for clocks, maps and other offerings. The editorial said: "There has never been any irreversible institutional innovation in Chinese culture that is similar to what happened in the Western world. Only in the last 150 years of the second millennium,