我与郑加真同志是相识三十多年的老朋友了。早在认识他以前,我已知道他的名字,在黑龙江省的文学报刊上,在北京和沈阳的大刊物上,常有他的作品发表,还在上海少年儿童出版社出过书。在我这个业余作者心中,他已经是个大作家了,对他是十分仰慕的,希望有一天能和他认识并向他求教。未承想,我这个朴素的愿望竟然很快地得到实现。时在一九六五年春天。那时我的一部长篇小说《钢铁巨人》的稿子 I and Comrade Zheng Jiazhen are old friends who have known each other for over thirty years. Before I knew him, I knew his name. He was often published in the literary press in Heilongjiang Province and in major journals in Beijing and Shenyang. He was also published in the Shanghai Children’s Publishing House. In my mind as an amateur author, he is already a great writer, so much admired of him that he will one day know and consult with him. Did not conceive, my simple wish even soon realized. In the spring of 1965 At that time, one of my novel “steel giant” draft