为什么要向日本学习?

• 作 者: 赵晓
• 机 构: 北京大学 教授
• 出 处: 招商周刊
• 发表日期: 2004年38期
• 关键词: 中国经济建设 美国经济 国土面积 收人分配 国际警戒线 收人差距 中国商人 资源型产业 制造业产值 大中国

过去20多年特别是最近10多年中,中国经济建设突飞猛进,日本却陷于停滞甚至负增长的泥潭。面对中国蒸蒸日上,日本似乎走下坡路的趋势,某些人的头脑中逐渐形成一个“幻觉”:中国即将超越日本。在我的经济学同行中,甚至也出现了高看中国轻看日本的倾向。有段时间,北京盛传着一个笑话,说将来全球只要有三个经济学家就够了,一个懂美国经济,一个懂欧洲经济,还有一个懂中国经济的。至于日本,回答是轻蔑的一笑。

In the past 20 years and especially in the past 10 years or so, China’s economic construction has been advancing by leaps and bounds. Japan is in a quagmire of stagnation or even negative growth. In the face of China’s booming economy, Japan seems to be on the decline. Some people’s minds have gradually become an “illusion.” China is about to overtake Japan. In my economics colleagues, there even appeared a tendency to see China despise Japan. There was a time when Beijing rumors of a joke that in the future as long as there are three economists in the world, one knows the U.S. economy, one understands the European economy, and one understands the Chinese economy. As for Japan, the answer is a contemptuous smile.