当前，以信息技术为代表的高新技术发展日新月异。信息技术与信息产业正在有力地推动着经济全球化的进程，并由此产生了新的经济模式，催生了一些新的产业，加速了世界性的产业结构、产品结构的调整，对全球社会经济活动产生了难以估量的影响。目前，中国的信息产业发展速度较快

Passage One:
    As for Sino-US trade, mutually beneficial and win-win trade and economic ties have delivered tangible economic benefits to both countries. Now, with more than 40,000 US-invested enterprises, the paid-in value of total US investment in China now stands at $43 billion. Of the top 500 US companies, more than 400 are in China, and most are making profits. At the same time, in American market, many Chinese commodities have become favored choices of US consumers. The number of Chinese-invested enterprises in the United States has surpassed 700.
Passage Two:
    Nowadays, with information technology as its representative, new and high technology is developing with each passing day. Information technology and information industry are vigorously promoting (the progress of) economic globalization, which has brought forth new economic patterns, expedited some new industries and accelerated the world adjustment of industry and product patterns, thus having immeasurable effect on global social and economic activities. At present, the information industry in China is developing quickly. Yet, we need to be fully aware that the most obvious weakness in the competition in market, especially in international market is our lack of technology and products with our own intellectual property rights.