本文阐述了2012年上海合作组织区域经济合作的进展状况。首先，在全球经济和贸易低速增长的形势下上海合作组织区域贸易实现了稳步增长，成员国之间的贸易成为拉动各国对外贸易发展的新动力，彼此成为最重要的贸易伙伴。其次，区域投资加速发展且成效显著，投资规模明显扩大，投资方式和投资主体多元化，投资领域不断拓宽；网络性建设项目和园区建设成为投资亮点。贸易和投资便利化进程稳步推进。再次，阐述了未来上海合作组织区域经济合作发展所面临的内外部挑战与机遇。最后指出，未来上海合作组织区域经济合作发展的基本方向，即深化区域经济合作是成员国摆脱危机的重要出路，成员国应在多边贸易规则基础上大力推进区域内贸易投资自由化和便利化进程，尤其加强相互投资，使区域经济合作取得更大成效，最终造福各国人民。
This thesis discusses the progress attained in the regional economic cooperation of SCO in 2012. Firstly, under the situation of global economic and commercial slowdown, a steady growth was registered in the trade across the region of SCO. Trade among the SCO member states has become a new impetus driving the growth of foreign trade of SCO member states who have become important trade partners with each other. Secondly, the regional investment has grown rapidly with remarkable effect, the scale of investment has markedly increased, investing means and investors became diversified, the areas absorbing investment continued to broaden, and projects of network construction and industrial park/zone construction were becoming new bright spots of investment. The process of trade and investment facilitation was progressing steadily. After that, both internal and external challenges and opportunities faced by SCO in its effort toward regional economic cooperation and development are examined. The thesis finally suggests that the future trend of the SCO regional economic cooperation and development lies in the deepening of the region's economic cooperation which is exactly the way for the member states to lift themselves out of the crisis, and they should vigorously push for the facilitation of free trade and investment within the region on the basis of multilateral trade rules, and in particular increase mutual investment to enhance the effect of regional economic cooperation, and eventually to benefit the people of the member states.
