启动消费，扩大内需，确保国民经济有效增长，是当前我国各项经济工作的重中之重。（一）当前我国扩大内需的主要障碍是市场需求疲软据有关部门对国内市场601种主要商品的调查，1998年上半年我国市场供过于求的商品占25．8％，供不应求的商品为0。另外我国社会消费品零售总额和 Starting consumption, expanding domestic demand and ensuring the effective growth of the national economy are the top priorities of all our economic work at present. (I) Currently, the main obstacle to expanding domestic demand in China is the weak market demand According to a survey of 601 major commodities in the domestic market by the departments concerned, in the first half of 1998, 25.8% of the products were oversupplied in the domestic market and 0 in short supply. In addition, China’s total retail sales of social consumer goods and