“市民社会”这一概念是从西方传来中国的,从公元1世纪这一概念的提出至今,西方市民社会已经发展了将近2100年,大多数西方国家都已形成完善的市民社会,而中国由于其特殊的国情,西方意义上的市民社会才初露端倪。本文从中国市场经济与市民社会的互动关系这一角度,分析了中国市民社会的形成过程及其对中国经济发展的作用。 The concept of “civil society” came from the West. Since the proposal of the concept of the 1st century AD, the civil society in the West has been developing for almost 2100 years. Most western countries have formed a sound civil society, Due to its special national conditions in China, civic society in the western sense has just begun to emerge. This paper analyzes the formation process of Chinese civil society and its impact on China’s economic development from the perspective of the interaction between Chinese market economy and civil society.