人类即将告别20世纪而跨入21世纪之际,人们可以预见或推知到,新的世纪新的千年,将是世界变得更加纷繁复杂、瞬息万变的人类历史时代。在整个世界的政治领域、文化领域、科技领域、经济领域和生活领域,将会有与20世纪截然不同的新问题、新情况、新事物层出不穷不断涌现。然而,最为突出和最为鲜明的是,人们已经清晰地看到了,人类历史从传统的农业经济和传统的工业经济逐步地向知识经济时代推进,新 As human beings are about to bid farewell to the 20th century and enter the 21st century, one can foresee or infer that the new millennium will be the era of human history in which the world has become more complicated and rapidly changing. In the political, cultural, scientific and technological fields, economic fields and areas of life in the entire world, there will be completely different new issues from the 20th century. New situations and new things will emerge endlessly. However, the most prominent and most vivid one is that people have clearly seen that human history has been gradually advanced from the traditional agricultural economy and the traditional industrial economy to the era of knowledge-based economy and that new