编者按:《当代中国的对外经济合作》是《当代中国》大型丛书分卷之一,即将公开出版发行。该书由对外经济贸易部组织长期从事对外经济合作事业、具有丰富实践经验和一定学术理论水平的同志集体编撰,并附有许多首次公布的统计资料和珍贵的历史照片。陈慕华同志为该书撰写了序言,现特予转载。 Editor’s Note: “Contemporary China’s Foreign Economic Cooperation” is one of the major volumes of Contemporary China, which is about to be published. The book by the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade has long been engaged in foreign economic cooperation, with rich practical experience and a certain level of theoretical academic comrades collective compilation, and with many of the first published statistics and precious historical photos. Comrade Chen Muhua wrote a preface for the book, which is now reproduced.