In the space of six years, foreign trade has shot up from US $ 20 to US $ 50 billion, making it the eighteenth largest trading nation in the world, drawing near the fifteenth place Republic of China.
六年之間，大陸對外的貿易額由美金二○六億增至五百億，緊跟著貿易額五百廿億美元的中華民國。