Given Southeast Asia’s growing economic importance, the implications of this trend could not be weightier. The ASEAN countries’ combined annual GDP is already $2.4 trillion and growing fast, owing to their rapidly expanding middle class, highly skilled workers, and increasingly upscale markets.
鉴于东南亚地区经济重要性日益凸显，上述趋势的影响重得不能再重。因为中产阶级迅速扩大、工人技术不断提升和高端市场不断发展，东盟国家年度GDP总和已超过24，000亿美元且仍在快速增加。如果照目前的趋势发展下去，中国与东盟贸易额到2020年将达到1万亿美元。