中国日益扩大的国际接触对其进步一直是至关重要的。中国能够在已取得的经济成功的基础上进一步发展，关键是它进入了世界市场。让我们看几个统计数字。1979年以来，外贸占中国国民生产总值（Gross National Product/GNP）的比重从10%上升到45%。融入世界市场已成为中国经济生活的一个基本事实。继之而来的是融入世界投资体系。外国资金大量流入中国，外资存量（reserve of foreign funds）从1989年的50亿美元上升到1994年的近900亿美元。

  China’s growing international engagement has been vital to her progress. The key to sustaining and building on early economic success was China’s move into the world markets. Let’s consider a couple of statistics. Since 1979 foreign trade, as a share of China’s GNP has risen from 10% to 45%. Integration in the world markets became a bare fact of Chinese economic life. With that came integration into the world investment system. Foreign funds flowed into China in a spectacular way. The reserve of foreign funds grew form ＄ 5 billion in 1989 to nearly 90 billion by 1994.