编者按：1999年1月中旬，东北大学兼职教授张信传、冶金经济发展研究中心研究员薛传利，应邀到美国剑桥大学嘉丁管理学院参加了一个研究世界和中国钢铁大企业发展的国际学术研讨会。他们带回了研讨会的主题报告，即剑桥大学彼得·诺兰教授在研讨会上发表的论文，并得到诺兰教授 Editor’s note: In mid January 1999, Zhang Xinchuan, a part-time professor at Northeastern University, and Xue Chuanli, a researcher at the Metallurgical Economic Development Research Center, were invited to attend an international symposium on the development of the world and China’s large steel enterprises at the Jiading School of Management, Cambridge University. They brought back the thematic report of the seminar, a paper published at the seminar by Professor Peter Nolan of the University of Cambridge, and received Professor Nolan