新中国成立以后,随着出版事业的迅速发展,出版干部不论在数量和质量上都不能满足需要的问题十分突出。1950年4月1 日,出版总署胡愈之署长在新华书店总管理处成立大会上的讲话中说:“我们每一个人都有这样的感觉:力量小,担负大。主要原因是业务发展太快了……千千万万的读者向我们要书,我们不能不给,但是,干部不是很快可以培养的,这就是我们目前最大的困难。” After the founding of New China, with the rapid development of publishing, the issue of publishing cadres, both in quantity and in quality, can not meet their needs. On April 1, 1950, the Director General of Publication Administration Hu Yuzhi said at the inaugural meeting of Xinhua Bookstore General Management Office: “Each of us has the feeling that strength is low and we are heavily involved, mainly because the business The development is too fast ... Thousands of readers ask for books from us, and we can not but give them. However, cadres are not able to cultivate them very quickly. This is our greatest difficulty at present. ”