全球化是21世纪最显著的特征,在此背景下,外语政策与外语规划对一个国家政治经济文化权益方面的意义是不言而喻的。在对中美国家外语能力建设过程中的外语政策和外语规划进行历时和共时的对比、分析的基础上,理性借鉴美国国家外语能力建设的路径、措施,以期对发展我国的国家外语能力起到积极的启示作用。 Globalization is the most prominent feature of the 21st century. Against this background, the significance of foreign language policy and foreign language planning for a country’s political, economic and cultural rights and interests is self-evident. Based on the diachronic and synchronic comparison and analysis of the foreign language policies and foreign language planning in the process of building the foreign language capacity in China and the United States, the paper draws lessons from the path and measures of the capacity building of foreign languages ​​in the United States with a view to promoting the development of our country’s foreign language ability To a positive inspiration.