加入世贸组织,是我国改革开放进程中具有重大历史意义和深远影响的一件大事。我国将在更大范围和更深程度上参与经济全球化,对外开放进入新阶段,将加快完善社会主义市场经济体制,加快推进经济结构战略性调整,增强国民经济的适应能力和产业竞争力。改革开放以来,中国经济在结构调整中持续快速发展。在过去的20多年中,我们保持了较快的经济增长速度,较好地发挥了劳动力成本低和国内市场潜力较大的优势。进入新世纪,我国进入全面建设小康社会,加快推进社会主义现代化的新的发展阶段。结构调整是“十五”时期我国经济 Accession to the WTO is a major event that has a great historic and far-reaching impact in the process of China’s reform and opening up. China will participate in economic globalization on a larger scale and at a deeper level. Opening up to the outside world will speed up the improvement of the socialist market economic system, speed up the strategic readjustment of economic structure and enhance the adaptability of the national economy and industrial competitiveness. Since the reform and opening up, China’s economy has witnessed sustained and rapid growth in structural adjustment. In the past two decades or so, we have maintained a relatively rapid rate of economic growth, and we have played our advantages of low labor costs and greater potential in the domestic market. In the new century, our country has entered a new stage of development in which we are building a well-off society in an all-round way and accelerating the socialist modernization. Structural adjustment is the “fifteen ” period of our economy