东亚经济崛起是20世纪后半期世界经济格局变化的最重要特征。50、60年代日本利用美国提供的资金、技术和市场,奇迹般地发展起来,到1968年日本已成为资本主义世界仅次于美国的第二号经济大国。继日本之后,70年代亚洲“四小龙”以8～9%左右的年增长率开始了一轮高速增长,迅速地实现了工业化,成为新兴工业化国家和地区。此后,马来西亚、印尼、菲律宾、泰国的经济也呈加速之势,正在成为新一代的新兴工业化国家。中国自改 The rise of East Asia’s economy is the most important feature of the changes in the world economic pattern in the latter half of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, Japan miraculously developed with the funds, technologies and markets provided by the United States. By 1968, Japan had become the second largest economic power in the capitalist world after the United States. After Japan, the “four little dragons” in Asia in the 1970s started a rapid growth at an annual growth rate of about 8 to 9 percent, rapidly realizing industrialization and becoming a newly industrialized country and region. Since then, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand have also accelerated their economy and are now becoming a new generation of newly industrialized countries. China self-reform