适用技术理论兴起于本世纪的六、七十年代,是针对五、六十年代盛行的起飞理论在一些发展中国家的失败后寻求的一种新的发展战略指导思想,也是对五十年代以来流行的各种技术选择理论,如高产出标准论、社会极限生产标准论、高积累率标准论、时间系列标准论等的突破。它认为:在社会经济发展中,应当审慎地考虑每一种技术,对选择某项技术可能产生的各种后果,要在决策中予以充分的考虑;技术选择的基础不仅是单纯技术因素的考虑和论证,而应包括经济、文化、环境、能源 The rise of applicable technology theory in the sixties and seventies of this century is a new guiding principle of development strategy aimed at the popular take-off theories developed in the 1950s and 1960s after the failure of some developing countries, Popular technology selection theory, such as high yield standard theory, social limit production standard theory, the standard of high accumulation rate, time series standard theory and other breakthroughs. In its opinion, in the socio-economic development, each technology should be carefully considered, and the various consequences that may result from the selection of a certain technology should be fully considered in decision-making. The basis for the selection of technology is not only the consideration of purely technical factors And argumentation, but should include economic, cultural, environmental, energy