首先请允许我代表中国社会科学院 ,对这次年会的召开表示热烈的祝贺。对与会的领导、各位学者专家 ,表示热烈欢迎 ,并且通过与会的同志们 ,向在全国各地从事经济史研究的学者专家 ,致以衷心的敬意。我们从事经济史研究的同志们 ,这些年来 ,在这门学科暂时还没有得到应有重视的 First of all, please allow me, on behalf of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, to extend my warm congratulation on the convening of this annual meeting. He extended his warm welcome to leaders attending the conference and experts and scholars from all walks of life and extended his heartfelt respect to those experts and scholars engaged in the study of economic history from all over the country through the comrades present here. We have engaged in the study of economic history comrades, over the years, in this discipline has yet to get the attention it deserves