1949年10月1日中华人民共和国的成立,在中国的科学史上开始了一个新的时代。在过去十年里,中国科学的发展很快;有几门科学发展得特别快,分析化学是其中之一。在1949年以前中国科学与技术是很落后的。在国民党反动政权统治之下,工农业发展非常慢;在解放前的几年里,工业生产几乎完全停顿;甚至少得可怜的一点产品,也有时感到“生产过剩”。在这种情形之下,工业生产对分析化学的需要很少,更谈不到新的分析 The establishment of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949 started a new era in the history of science in China. In the past decade, the development of science in China has been rapid; there are a few sciences that have developed very rapidly and one of them is analytical chemistry. Before 1949, China’s science and technology were backward. Under the rule of the Kuomintang reactionary regimes, the development of industry and agriculture was very slow; during the few years prior to the liberation, industrial production almost completely stopped; even the slightest bit of product sometimes felt “overproduction.” Under such circumstances, industrial production has little need for analytical chemistry, let alone a new analysis