统计工作是实现科学决策和现代化管理的一项基础工作。近年来 ,一方面 ,统计工作的地位越来越重要 ,任务越来越繁重 ,难度越来越大 ;另一方面 ,基层统计尤其是乡镇统计的基础有所削弱。统计工作已经到了不改革就没有出路的时候。严峻的现实 ,迫切要求我们加快统计改革的步伐 ; Statistical work is a basic task for achieving scientific decision-making and modern management. In recent years, on the one hand, the status of statistical work has become more and more important, and its tasks have become more and more arduous and harder and harder. On the other hand, the basic statistics at the grass-roots level, especially the statistics of townships, have weakened. Statistics have come to no reform when there is no way out. The grim reality urgently requires us to speed up the pace of statistical reform.