在全国社会主义新方志陆续问世的金秋时节，人们盼望已久的（桂林市志）终于在1997年12月由中华书局出版发行。这是桂林市文化建设的一项重大成果。我作为一名祖籍桂林的史学工作者，有幸能拜读此志，不胜欣喜。综观全志，我认为有如下特点。一、指导思想明确，富有地方特色我 In the fall of the coming of the new national register of socialism, the long-awaited (Guilin Zhi) was finally published and published by Zhonghua Book Company in December 1997. This is a major achievement of Guilin’s cultural construction. As an historian of Guilin, an ancestral home, I was fortunate enough to read this record. Looking at the whole Chi, I think the following characteristics. First, a clear guiding ideology, full of local characteristics of me