时值新世纪之初，全国上下共同关注“西部大开发”战略之际，第六届全国青年岩石力学与工程学术会议将定于２００１年１０月在我国西部年轻直辖市重庆召开。这次会议由中国岩石力学与工程学会年青工作委员会主办，解放军后勤工程学院和重庆市岩石力学与工程学会负责会议的组织? At the beginning of the new century, at the time when the whole country is paying close attention to the “Western Development” strategy, the 6th National Young Scientists Conference on Rock Mechanics and Engineering will be held in October 2001 in Chongqing, a municipality of young people in western China. The conference was sponsored by the Young Work Committee of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering. The Institute of Logistical Engineering of the PLA and the Chongqing Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering were responsible for organizing the conference.