我是在4年前开始产生编辑出版《21世纪初中国生态年鉴——〈绿色中国〉、〈绿色北京〉》套书这一想法的。当时,作为一个比较关注生态的编辑工作者,我很想购买一本较为全面的资料,以了解当代中国的生态状况,我们已经和正在做哪些生态保护工作,有什么重大生态保护举措和生态事件,存在什么问题和争议,有什么努力方向等等。然而,我在一年之中走遍了北京的书店和图书馆,却没找到一本这样的书。这使我极为震惊。请想想看,生态环境是一切文明赖以生存的基础,在人类历史上,有多少文明因良好的生态而发展,又有多少文明因生 I started thinking about how to compile and publish the book China Ecosystem Yearbook - Green China, Green Peoples in the Early Twenty-first Century 4 years ago. At that time, as an editorial worker who was more concerned about ecology, I would love to buy more comprehensive information about the ecological conditions in contemporary China, what kinds of ecological protection work we are already doing, what major ecological protection measures and ecological events What problems and disputes exist, what is the direction of efforts and so on. However, I traveled throughout Beijing in one year’s bookstore and library, but I did not find one such book. This makes me extremely shocked. Think about it, the ecological environment is the basis for all civilizations to survive. In the history of mankind, how many civilizations have developed because of their good ecology and how many civilizations have caused them