80年代中期以来,在世界政治和经济激烈动荡、变化多端的大背景中,世界经济区域集团化迅速发展,成为当今国际经济贸易合作的一种新的组织形式。这一形式是由同一地区的一些国家为维护共同利益,巩固和扩大内部市场,迅速增强实力,共同对外竞争而组成的不同紧密程度的经济贸易合作集团。综观世界经济区域集团化的发展态势,其主要特点是: 第一,进程明显加快。一方面是区域集团内的一体化程度提高。如欧洲联盟的前身——欧共体在成立后的头20年内,只实行了关税同盟、共同农业政策和外贸政策,建立了欧洲贸易体系和货币体系,以及维持欧 Since the mid-1980s, in the context of fierce political turmoil and changing economy in the world, the grouping of world economic regions has been rapidly developing and has become a new form of organization in today’s international economic and trade cooperation. This form consists of economic and trade cooperation groups of different closeness formed by some countries in the same region in the interests of safeguarding common interests, consolidating and expanding the internal market, rapidly increasing their strength and jointly competing with foreign countries. Looking at the development trend of collectivization in the world economic region, its main features are: First, the process is noticeably accelerated. On the one hand, there is an increase in the degree of integration within the regional group. As the predecessor of the European Union, the European Community implemented only the customs union, common agricultural policy and foreign trade policy in the first two decades after its establishment, established the European trading system and monetary system, and maintained the European