《黄河边的中国》是“一个学者对乡村社会的观察与思考” ,出版后在社会上颇有反响。作者聚焦中国农村 ,有深刻的现实意义。当前农业出现了一些新情况和新问题 ,农业发展面临新挑战和新任务。“十五”计划把巩固和加强农业的基础地位放在第一项 ,是有战略性考虑的。充分认识新形势下加强农业的重要性 ,对于实现“十五”农业发展目标 ,从而实现国民经济和社会发展目标 ,具有十分重要的意义。面对广大的农村 ,作者选择了中原乡村社会。因为这块古老的黄土地是我们中华农耕文化得以发源、定型且绵延不绝的基地 ,作者认为“从传统的角度去看现代化的过程 ,这一视角的重要意义在于 :中国现代化的目标、实现的途径及速率 ,归根到底是受中国农民、农业与农村现代化的目标、途径与速率所制约的。”这无疑是选择了一个很好的切入点。为此 ,本刊特邀请五位农业问题专家就此阐述各自的看法。不久前刚刚闭幕的中共中央十五届六中全会通过了关于加强和改进党的作风建设的决定 ,提出在当前和今后一个时期 ,要抓住重点 ,集中解决“五风”问题。“五风”之中即有学风。学风不正有种种表现 ,但学风轻浮 ,不了解实际 ,夸夸其谈 ,做表面文章则是比较常见的现象。本书作者能只身一人 ,深入到村落与农户中聆听他们的倾诉 ,然? “China by the Yellow River” is “a scholar who observed and thought about rural society” and was quite socially responsive after its publication. The author focuses on China’s rural areas, there are profound practical significance. At present, some new situations and new problems have emerged in agriculture and the development of agriculture faces new challenges and new tasks. The “10th Five-Year Plan” put strategic importance in consolidating and strengthening the basic position of agriculture in the first place and is strategically considered. Fully understanding the importance of strengthening agriculture in the new situation is of great significance for realizing the goal of agricultural development in the Tenth Five-Year Plan so as to achieve the goal of national economy and social development. The face of the vast rural areas, the author chose the Central Plains rural society. Because this ancient yellow land is a base where we can originate, shape and endlessly develop the Chinese farming culture, the author holds that “the traditional significance of the modernization process lies in the following: the goal of China’s modernization and its realization The ways and rates of which are ultimately constrained by the goals, approaches and rates of Chinese peasants, the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. ”This undoubtedly chooses a good starting point. To this end, the magazine invited five agricultural experts to elaborate on their own views. The 6th Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC Central Committee) just concluded shortly ago adopted the decision on strengthening and improving the Party’s style of work. They proposed that at present and in the coming future, we should seize the key points and focus on resolving the “Five Winds” issue. “Five Winds” that is, there is a style of study. There are various manifestations of unhealthy style of study, but the style of study is frivolous, do not understand the reality, rhetoric, to do the surface of the article is a more common phenomenon. The author of this book can be alone, deep into the village and farmer to listen to their talk, however?