“金砖四国”是美国高盛公司首席经济师吉姆·奥尼尔2001年首次提出的,从而把巴西、俄罗斯、印度和中国四国联系了起来。2003年,奥尼尔在一份题为《与“金砖四国”一起梦想》的研究报告中预测,到2050年,世界经济格局将重新洗牌,金砖四国将超越西方发达国家,与美国、日本一起跻身全球新的六大经济体。这份报告出台后,金砖四国这一概 The BRICs were first proposed by Jim O’Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs in 2001, to connect Brazil, Russia, India and China. In 2003, O’Neill predicted in a research report titled “Dream Together” with the BRIC countries that the global economic pattern will be reshuffled by 2050 and that the BRIC will surpass the developed western countries and the United States , Japan together among the six new global economy. After the report was introduced, the BRICs are the same