Foreign trade and economic relations are an important component of our national economy, and also important in our opening to the outside world. Since the economic reform and opening drive, a series of important measures have been adopted to promote the development of foreign trade and economic relations. A basic large economic and trade system has taken shape, with commodity, technology, capital and labour interacting, and with trade, production, science and finance departments closely correlated. In the Eighth Five-year Plan period, great achievements have been made in our foreign trade and economic relations, and in energetically boosting