我作为一个老海洋工作者,十分高兴地看到我国第一部《海洋经济学》问世,这是为世界学科之林添补了一株新苗。 万事开头难,现在总算难出了头。这是一件可喜可贺的事情。我记得在80年代初,就有几位思想敏锐的理论工作者,雄心勃勃地准备用三至五年时间,建立起海洋经济学。但他们的计划没有实现,倒不是因为他们没有潜心研究,也不是没有科研才能,而主要是那时的客观条件不成熟。一门新学科的产生和发展也是有规律的。主要取决于三个要素:一是研究对象即理论客体的发展程度;二是有关资料积累数 As an old marine worker, I am very pleased to see the advent of China’s first “marine economics”, which has added a new seedling to the world discipline. Everything is hard at the beginning, and now it is hard to come to an end. This is a gratifying thing. I remember that in the early 1980s, there were several sharp-minded theoretical workers who ambitiously prepared to establish marine economics in three to five years. However, their plan was not realized. It was not because they did not devote themselves to studying, nor did they lack the capacity of scientific research, but mainly because the objective conditions at that time were immature. The emergence and development of a new discipline is also regular. Mainly depends on three elements: First, the research object is the degree of the development of theoretical object; the second is the accumulation of data