世纪之交，一个继农业经济、工业经济之后的知识经济时代已经到来。据未来学家预计，２１世纪全球经济将是以知识经济为主导的经济。这对发达国家而言是生产力发展的必然结果，而对发展中国家来说，则是机遇与挑战并存。从总体上看，科技知识和人才教育是发展知识经济的两大支 At the turn of the century, an era of knowledge economy following the agricultural economy and industrial economy has come. According to futurists, the global economy in the 21st century will be dominated by a knowledge-based economy. This is an inevitable result of the development of productive forces for developed countries. For developing countries, opportunities and challenges coexist. In general, scientific and technological knowledge and human resources education are two major branches of the development of a knowledge-based economy.