回首新中国由贫穷落后走向初步繁荣昌盛的艰难旅程,我们不能不为数百万能源工业建设者和生产者的功勋大书一笔。正是由于他们坚韧不拔的努力,我国能源生产总量由1949年的折合2371万吨标准煤,上升到1988年的折合9.51亿吨标准煤,增长40倍。昔日的能源低产国,一跃而成为当今世界仅次于美国和苏联的第三能源生产大国。 Looking back at the difficult journey from poverty and backwardness to the initial prosperity of New China, we cannot but praise the achievements of millions of energy industry builders and producers. It is because of their perseverance that China’s total energy production has increased from 23,710,000 tons of standard coal in 1949 to 951 million tons of standard coal in 1988, an increase of 40 times. The former energy-producing and low-producing countries have become the third largest energy-producing country in the world after the United States and the Soviet Union.