所谓七国集团,是指美国、日本、德国、法国、英国、意大利和加拿大等世界上七个最发达工业化国家的经济、政治论坛,它也因此有“富人俱乐部”之称。就形式而言,它实际上是所谓西方主要国家之间所形成的一种国际会议制度。参加该论坛的国家每年举行一次首脑会议以及若干次部长级会议(包括外长会议和财长会议等)。其中最主要的是,作为一种固定的会议制度,从1976年起轮流在西方七国举行的一年一度的“西方七 The so-called G-7 refers to the economic and political forums in the world’s seven most developed industrialized countries such as the United States, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Canada. It also has the title of “rich club”. In terms of its form, it is actually an international conference system formed by so-called major Western countries. The countries participating in the forum hold annual summits and several ministerial meetings (including foreign ministers ’meetings and finance ministers’ meetings) each year. The most important of these is that as a fixed conference system, the annual "Western seven