现代经济的实际发展表明：国际贸易是经济发展的重要部分和强大动力。改革开放以来，外贸业务迅猛增长，这对中国经济乃至世界经济都贡献巨大，外贸人才的需求也随之越来越大。《外贸英语函电》借鉴国内外外贸英语函电的结构与体系，紧密结合我国外贸业务的实际，通过大量的案例、实例，系统介绍了外贸业务活动中各种商务英语的格式与结构、写作特点、专业术语、常用专业词汇、相关句型和常见表达方式等，使学生通过实例，能举一反三，学以致用，从而提高外贸英语水平，熟练掌握外贸业务中常用的英语基本术语、表达技巧与技能。

The actual development of modern economy shows that international trade is an important part of the economic development and power. Since the reform and opening-up, Chinese foreign trade business has made rapid growth, which contributes greatly not only to the Chinese economy,but also the world economy. With this high-speed development, the demands in the society for foreign trade talented persons are growing larger and more urgent. “English Business Correspondence Writing” uses the structure, characteristics and system of business English for reference, closely combines the actual foreign trade business in China with the international business practice. Through a lot of cases, actual business letter writing samples, the course systematically introduces various business English format and structure, writing characteristics, jargon, common vocabulary, related patterns and common expressions etc used in foreign trade business activities both at home and abroad. After study of this course students can extrapolate and application through examples and practice, thus improve their knowledge of foreign trade and business English level, and master the basic and everyday foreign trade business in general terms, basic English expression skills.