在中国铝产量不断快速攀升的形势下,铝的消费成为人们热议的话题。中国的铝消费将如何增长?铝的生产又该以什么样的步伐和节奏向前推进?美国铝消费格局的演变以及在各个经济发展阶段的不同表现,也许能给我们一些启示。“美国铝供需格局演变及其与经济发展的关联性”一文中,我们清晰地发现,美国人均铝消费已经在工业化后期经历了峰值。中国刚刚步入工业化中期,也是工业化的加速阶段,未来二十年里,工业经济发展仍将保持快速步伐。从美国的发展历程看,工业化的完成必将是铝消费增长趋势变化的重要节点,如果仅从美 Aluminum consumption has become a hot topic in the rapidly rising aluminum production in China. How China’s aluminum consumption will grow? In what way should the production of aluminum go forward? The evolution of the aluminum consumption pattern in the United States and its different stages of economic development may give us some inspiration. In the article “Evolution of the Aluminum Supply and Demand in the United States and Its Relationship to Economic Development,” we clearly found that aluminum consumption per capita in the United States has experienced its peak in the latter stages of industrialization. China has just stepped into the middle stage of industrialization and is also an acceleration stage of industrialization. In the next two decades, industrial economic development will still maintain its rapid pace. From the perspective of the development of the United States, the completion of industrialization will surely be an important node in the change in the growth trend of aluminum consumption. If only the United States