“重化工业新阶段论”是在我国针对经济运行中的问题实行宏观调控的背景下提出来的,是为肯定新一轮重化工业大发展的必然性和合理性提供理论依据的。由此展开的争论的实质是,我国应当走什么样的工业发展道路,实行什么样的经济增长方式。分析表明,无论在实践上还是在理论上,这一论点都是难以成立的。 The “new phase theory of heavy chemical industry” is proposed in the context of China’s macroeconomic control over the problems in economic operation, and provides a theoretical basis for affirming the necessity and rationality of the great development of the new round of heavy chemical industry. The essence of the controversy thus started is what kind of mode of economic growth China should take in its industrial development. The analysis shows that this argument is difficult to set up both in practice and in theory.