中国国情研究专家、清华大学教授胡鞍钢提出,实现亚洲经济一体化需要具有正式规则的自由贸易区,这对亚洲各国都是有益的,也远比依靠自发性的市场驱动模式更有利于促进亚洲地区经济一体化的发展。而在亚洲建立自由贸易区将分“五步 Hu Angang, a professor of China’s national conditions and a professor at Tsinghua University, proposed that achieving a free-trade zone with formal rules in Asia’s economic integration will be beneficial to all Asian countries and more conducive to promoting Asia than relying on a spontaneous market-driven model Regional Economic Integration. The establishment of a free trade zone in Asia will be divided into five steps