由中国科学院自然科学史所组织实施、卢嘉锡院长任主编的《中国科学技术史》大型丛书正陆续面世。这是半个世纪以来,中国学者对中国古代科学技术研究成果的集大成。新出版的周魁一《中国科学技术史·水利卷》则是中国古代水利史研究成果的集大成。中国是个以农立国的古文明国家 Organized by the history of natural sciences by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the large series of “History of Chinese Science and Technology” edited by President LU Jia-xin is being published one after another. This is the culmination of half a century of Chinese scholars’ research in ancient Chinese science and technology. The newly published Zhou Kuiyi’s “History of Science and Technology in China and Water Conservancy Volume” is a masterpiece of the research results of ancient Chinese history of water conservancy. China is an ancient civilized country based on farming and founding a nation