厉以宁在《经济学家》 2000年第 4期撰文指出，现在有一种流行的观点，认为中国加入 WTO以后长期利大于弊，而短期是弊大于利。这个观点是错误的。应该说，中长期毫无疑问是利大于弊，短期同样是利大于弊。 　　以开放促改革，开放是不能掺假的，但改革可能有假，表面上叫改? Li Yining wrote in The Economist No.4 of 2000 that there is a prevailing view that long-term benefits outweigh the disadvantages of China’s accession to the WTO, and that short-term disadvantages do more harm than good. This view is wrong. It should be said that in the long run, there is no doubt that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. In the short run, the benefits are greater than the disadvantages. In order to promote the reform through opening up, we can not adulterate it through opening up. However, reforms may be fake and ostensibly called reforms.