亚太经合组织（APEC）启动十余年来，从一个并不引人注目的地区经济论坛，演变为旨在推进亚太贸易投资自由化和经济技术合作的庞大地区合作机构，所取得的傲人成就是创建者当初没有想到的；而把差异巨大的21个成员整合在一起，独创出以强调自主自愿、协商一致、灵活渐进等原则 For more than a decade now, the APEC has made remarkable achievements in evolving from an unnoticed regional economic forum into a large-scale regional cooperation agency aimed at advancing trade and investment liberalization and economic and technological cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. The founders did not think of it at the beginning; while integrating the 21 members with huge differences, they created the principles of independence, voluntariness, consensus, flexibility and gradualism