值此中国出版工作者协会第三次会员代表大会在京召开之际,我谨代表党中央、国务院向大会表示热烈祝贺,并通过你们向全国出版工作者致以亲切的慰问。出版事业是人类积累知识、传播知识、促进文明的重要手段。在人类文明发展史上,出版物占据了十分重要的地位,许许多多人类文明发展的里程碑本身就是由出版物构成的。党和政府对出版工作历来十分重视,建国以来,特别是党的十一届三中全会以来,通过广大出版工作者的共同努力,我国出版事业取得了空前发展。现在,我国每年出版的图书已逾九万种,成为一个 On the occasion of the convening of the third member congress of the Chinese Association of Publishers in Beijing, I hereby, on behalf of the Central Party Committee and the State Council, extend my warm congratulation to the General Assembly and extend my cordial greetings to all the national publishing workers through you. Publishing is an important means of accumulating knowledge, spreading knowledge and promoting civilization. In the history of the development of human civilization, publications occupy a very important position, and many, many milestones in the development of human civilization itself are made up of publications. The party and the government have always attached great importance to publishing work. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, especially since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, with the joint efforts of a large number of publishing workers, the publishing industry in our country has made unprecedented strides. Now, there are more than 90,000 kinds of books published each year in our country and become one