对外贸易是促进经济发展的重要源泉。贵州民族地区之所以长期处于落后状态,不仅是投资规模小、消费水平低,而且还在于对外贸易发展严重滞后。因此,要加快民族地区经济发展,必须大力发展民族地区的对外贸易。 Foreign trade is an important source of economic development. The reason why Guizhou’s ethnic areas have long been in a backward state is not only the small scale of investment and low level of consumption, but also the serious lag in the development of foreign trade. Therefore, in order to speed up the economic development in ethnic minority areas, we must vigorously develop foreign trade in minority areas.