亚太经合组织(APEC)成立于1989年11月。其背景一方面是亚太地区特别是西太平洋沿岸经济高速增长和持续繁荣、贸易和投资十分活跃,另一方面是世界经济的区域化、集团化及国际贸易保护主义逐渐加剧,对亚太地区的经济发展构成潜在的威胁。因此,APEC在成立之初便提出了推动区内贸易和投资自由化问题,并将其作为它的一项重要目标。与此同时,APEC还表明不走封闭的贸易集团老路,而要朝“开放的地区主义”前进,促进全球贸易自由 The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was established in November 1989. On the one hand, the rapid economic growth and sustained prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region, especially on the west Pacific coast, with very active trade and investment, regional economic globalization, collectivization and protectionism in international trade are gradually worsening. The economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region The development poses a potential threat. Therefore, at the very beginning of its establishment, APEC put forward the issue of promoting intra-regional trade and investment liberalization as one of its major goals. At the same time, APEC has also shown that it is necessary to move away from the old closed trade bloc and move toward “open regionalism” to promote global trade freedom