It functions both as an important institution ensuring the normal running of the socialist market economy and as one of the basic environments and conditions for conducting international exchange and cooperation in science,technology,economy and culture.

• 它的作用既是保证社会主义市场经济正常运行的重要制度，又是开展国际间科学技术、经济、文化交流与合作的基本环境和条件之一。