中国社科院世界经济与政治研究所研究员王德迅认为，即将过去的20世纪可以说是工业经济时代，而迎接我们的21世纪将是一个极富挑战性且充满机遇的知识经济时代。在对世纪，知识经济这一新经济形态将深刻改变社会经济活动以及人类生活方式，即对各国经济和社会生活产生越来越大? According to Wang Dexun, a researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the forthcoming 20th century can be said to be an era of industrial economy and the 21st century will be a challenging and full-fledged era of knowledge economy. In the new century, the new economic form of knowledge economy will profoundly change the social and economic activities as well as the human way of life, that is, the economy and social life in every country will be getting bigger and bigger.