常宗虎同志的病中成书《民政工作研究》于2006年1月由中国社会出版社出版,作为他的老朋友,我感到有责任为这本绝不可能畅销的书写一些文字。该书收录的基本是常宗虎同志2003年以前发表于各种报刊的有关民政工作理论研究的探讨性文章,由“民政综合”、“社会福利”、“退役安置”三部分组成,而这 Comrade Chang Zonghu’s book The Study of Civil Affairs Work was published by China Social Publishing House in January 2006 and as his old friend I felt obliged to write some words for this never-to-best-selling book. The book contains the basic basic of Comrade Chang Zonghu published in various newspapers before 2003 on the theory of civil affairs work on the exploratory articles by the “Civil Administration”, “social welfare ”, "retiring Three parts, and this