江泽民总书记8月7日的重要讲话,充分体现了党和国家对哲学社会科学研究工作的重视和关怀,必将对我国哲学社会科学事业的发展产生巨大的推动作用。科学包括自然科学和社会科学。二者犹如车之两轮,鸟之两翼,同样重要。科技力量是人们通过自然科学和技术来控制和支配自然力,但自然因素要并入生产过程则必须通过人们的社会结合和社会交往,通过劳动的组织和管理。这恰恰就是哲学社会科学研究的对象。因此,在重视自然科学和技术的同时,决不能忽视哲学社会科学的作用。哲学社会科学的发展状况不仅会影响到我国科学技术的整体水平,而且还会影响到知识形态的潜在生 General Secretary Jiang Zemin’s important speech on August 7 fully demonstrated that the party and the state attach great importance to and care for the research work on philosophy and social science and will surely have a tremendous impelling effect on the development of our country’s philosophy and social science. Science includes both natural and social sciences. Both are like two wheels of a car, two wings of a bird, equally important. Scientific and technological forces are people’s control and domination of natural forces through natural science and technology. However, when natural factors are to be integrated into the production process, they must be organized and administered through labor through social integration and social interaction. This is precisely the object of philosophy and social science research. Therefore, we must not neglect the role of philosophy and social science while attaching importance to natural science and technology. The development of philosophy and social science will not only affect the overall level of science and technology in our country, but also affect potential students in the form of knowledge