中国人民大学商学院教授谷克鉴博士指出,现在国内对WTO的研究像对待流行音乐,热闹一时,不能深入。造成这种现象当然是有历史原因的。尽管中国已经开放了20多年,但对WTO的了解已经是20世纪90年代的事了。实际上WTO有很强的边缘性。比如“绿色壁垒”问题,是把环境和贸易联系到一起,对以前单方面研究贸易或环境问题的学者来说就变成了一个新课题。还有劳工问题,原来更多是从社会学的层面来看这个问题,现在它也成了国际贸易研究的对象。由于WTO规范的领域不断扩大,使得一些边缘问题与贸易产生了联系,这就要求学者 Dr. Gu Kejian, a professor of business school at Renmin University of China, pointed out: At present, research on the WTO in China is like going to popular music. Of course, this phenomenon has a historical reason. Although China has been open for more than 20 years, understanding of the WTO is already a matter of the 1990s. In fact, WTO has strong marginalization. For example, the issue of “green barriers”, which link the environment with trade, has become a new topic for scholars who previously conducted unilateral studies on trade or environment issues. There are also labor issues, which turned out to be more sociological aspects of the problem, and now it has become the object of international trade research. As the field of WTO regulation continues to expand, some fringe problems have been brought into contact with trade, which requires scholars