新中国成立以来,我国对外贸易经历了一个缓慢的发展过程。直到七十年代初还只有几十亿的进出口规模,远不能满足社会主义经济发展的需要。随着对外开放政策的实施,从1978年起,对外贸易才开始有较大的起步,到1987年时,我国对外贸易进出口总额己接近700亿美元,其中出口347亿美元,进口334亿美元。但这在世界贸易的总数中也还只占一个很小的部分。根据统计资料, Since the founding of New China, China’s foreign trade has experienced a slow development process. Until the early 1970s, there were only billions of imports and exports, far from meeting the needs of the socialist economic development. With the implementation of the policy of opening up to the outside world, foreign trade began to have a big start since 1978. By 1987, the total foreign trade volume of China’s foreign trade had approached 70 billion U.S. dollars, of which 34.7 billion U.S. dollars were exported and 33.4 billion U.S. dollars were imported. . But this also accounts for only a very small part of the total number of world trade. According to statistics,