苏州市很早就是商品经济比较发达的地区。改革开放以来,苏州工业经济发展迅速,又是乡镇企业较早崛起并形成“半壁河山”的地区之一。1991年全市工业产值达700余亿元,其中属国家指令性计划的不足5％。苏州地区“缺煤、少钢、无木”,能源、原材料主要通过市场渠道从省内外组织。悠久的商品经济传统和发达的以“两头在外”加工工业为主的现代工 Suzhou has long been a well-developed commodity economy. Since the reform and opening up, the rapid development of industrial economy in Suzhou is one of the areas where township and village enterprises rose earlier and formed a “half-river.” In 1991, the city’s industrial output reached 700 billion yuan, of which less than 5% of the country’s mandatory plan. Suzhou area “lack of coal, less steel, no wood,” energy, raw materials mainly through market channels from inside and outside the province organization. A long tradition of commodity economy and a modern workforce dominated by the “two-headed” processing industry