要在我国建立和发展社会主义市场经济,就应该加强经济立法工作。一方面要把原有的一些不适应于市场经济的法律和法规加以修改(例如经济合同法),一方面要制定一些市场经济所必需的法律(如公司法、票据法、证券法等)。这两个方面都是急迫而繁重的。对于这两方面的工作,即不能回避,也不能拖延。本届人大常委决定以经济立法为其工作重点,是完全正确的。我们期望,这个工作能顺利进行。经济立法工作中的问题很多,这里要特别提出统一立法和分散立法的问题。我们所要建立的市场经济是一个全国的统一的市场经济。我国现在有几个经济特区,我国的东西地区(沿海地区和内陆地区)的经济发展水平很不相同。但是这种情形绝不能成为我国不能或不要建成统一市场的理由。根据我国的历史情况和现在的国情,我国所要建立的市场经 To establish and develop a socialist market economy in our country, we should step up economic legislation. On the one hand, some existing laws and regulations that are not suitable for a market economy should be revised (for example, the law of economic contract) and some laws (such as company law, negotiable instrument law, securities law, etc.) necessary for a market economy should be formulated. Both of these aspects are urgent and heavy. For these two aspects of work, we can not evade or delay. This NPC Standing Committee’s decision to focus its work on economic legislation is entirely correct. We expect this work to proceed smoothly. There are many problems in economic legislation. We should raise the issue of unification of legislation and decentralization of legislation here. The market economy we want to establish is a nationwide unified market economy. There are now several special economic zones in our country. The level of economic development in the eastern and western parts of our country (coastal areas and inland areas) is very different. However, this situation must not be a reason why China can not or should not build a unified market. According to China’s historical situation and the current national conditions, China’s market economy to be established