世界现代化发展的历史,实际上是一个工业化追赶的历史。从世界经济发展的演进历史来看,在现代化过程中有许多国家“后来居上”,实现了工业化追赶或超过现代化先行国,先后出现了4次后进国追赶现代化先行国的成功典范。美国是第一个成功追赶的典范。美国19世纪末与20世纪初经济开 The history of the world’s modernization has in fact been a history of industrialized catching-up. According to the evolution history of world economic development, many countries in the process of modernization have “succeeded themselves” and realized that industrialization has caught up with or surpassed the modernization of the advanced countries. There have been four successful examples of succeeding countries in catching up with the advanced forerunners afterwards. The United States is the first model to catch up successfully. The United States Opened the Economy in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century