实行对外开放,是当代城市发展的一项战略选择。如果说,在五六十年代,这还仅仅只是一种决策意向,而到了七八十年代,则开始成为一种世界性的潮流。这种演变的重要之点在于,在世纪交替之际,新的潮流较之传统的开放观念和行为方式,具有更为鲜明的时代特征,而认识和把握这些特征,对于我们调整开放策略、参与国际竞争,具有极为重要的意义。从开放自身的角度而论,当代国际对外开放的特征可以归纳为5个方面。第一,开放的价值取向由服务于政治转向经济增长。传统的对外开放,就其国际意义 Opening up to the outside world is a strategic choice for the development of contemporary cities. If we say that in the fifties and sixties, this was only a policy-making intention, and by the seventies and eighties, it began to become a worldwide trend. The important point of this evolution is that with the turning of the century, the new trend has more distinctive characteristics of the times than the traditional concepts of openness and behavior. However, knowing and grasping these characteristics is of great help to us in adjusting our opening-up strategy and participating in International competition is of great importance. From the point of view of opening up itself, the characteristics of contemporary international opening to the outside world can be summed up in five aspects. First, the value orientation of liberalization has shifted from serving politics to economic growth. The traditional opening up is of international significance