中小企业是中国经济中非常重要的力量。它们数量众多、影响巨大,在创新等方面体现出优势。在当前经济波动期,从政府政策到金融界都对它们进行支持,这是非常好的现象。对于中小企业或者小微企业,有一些特点值得关注。麻省理工学院一位知名的宏观经济学教授在2003年回答三位中国学生有关“美、日、欧经济有何不同”的问题时曾这样 Small and medium-sized enterprises are a very important force in China’s economy. They are large in number and influential, demonstrating advantages in innovation and others. In the current period of economic volatility, from government policies to the financial sector to support them, this is a very good sign. For SMEs or small and micro enterprises, there are some characteristics that deserve attention. A well-known professor of macroeconomics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) answered the question three Chinese students asked about “What is the difference between the U.S. economy and Japan’s economy” in 2003?