一、国内扩大内需的政策和趋好的国际经济形势,为2000年我国稀土工业保持良好发展势头创造了一个好的外部环境 2000年世界经济和贸易增长较快,美国经济在软着陆过程中维持了较高的增长速度,欧盟国家经济稳定增长,日本经济开始走出低谷缓慢回升,东盟和韩国等亚洲国家的 1. Domestic policies to expand domestic demand and a favourable international economic situation have created a good external environment for China’s rare earth industry to maintain its momentum of good development in 2000. The world economy and trade grew rapidly in 2000, and the U.S. economy maintained during the soft landing process. With a relatively high growth rate, the EU countries’ economy has grown steadily, and the Japanese economy has begun to recover from the trough and slowly rise. ASEAN and South Korea and other Asian countries’