Abstract: 2008 is a chinese year and the dragon wakes up. Beijing will host the olympic games and China is overall rising.
How should we, including chinese, alumni, classmates, you, me and he(she), show us to the world while world accept us roundly and we deside to merge into the world?
In the past 2007, this journal have accomplished color printing of the paper periodical and carried out network journal running, completed the large promotion of single period, improved greatly the working environment and the quality of periodical editing and proofreading is guaranteed substantively. As Hu Jintao said in the New Year Greetings that in 2007, new changes accurred in the world while China achieved new progress.
For our chinese, 2008 is an important year, so as to Southwest Petroleum University. Chinese people will commemorate ceremoniously the reform and opening for 30 years. Southwest Petroleum University will welcome in the 50th anniversary.
Stepping with the reform and opening, our journal becomes itself gradually. If what HuJintao said “Do the best to make people instructed for their learning, gain for labor, diseases for medica, the aged for cares, settlement for residention, promoting social harmony” represents target and direction of reform and opening, then “Do all efforts to promote subject constrution and talents cultivation, boom the technology and culture cause in China, reflect the front of science and technology, be output system for institutional knowledge, be an important composition of the national innovation system for knowledge and tend for the world”is the nice wish of this journal.
In 2008, centering on the spirit of the 17th people represent congress as the main line, we will continue to sing highly the scientific development, construct jointly the harmonious main melody, insist on technology and innovation guide, serve for reader, approach to reader, promote the improvement and innovation of content and form.
—show emotion to readers and pay attention to the autor. In order to improve the quality of the journal and offer more high level and original works for the reader, from this year on, we will do some proper adjustment on the reported perspective. We hope the understanding and support from readers and some authors.
—improve the reported contents and enhance the readability and collection value of the magazine. From this issue on, we add the column scientific life, focusing on some successful persons with achievement in technological exploration. We hope the later can be motivated by their deeds and make contribution to technological development and social progress. Your recommendation for the contents will be welcame.
—improve the service level and welcome for public supervision. From the fifth period in 2007, we have taken part in “commitment for no error in Editing periodical” launched by China Periodical Association, which makes us bear great burden. For this commitment, we added 8 editorial assistants and made important improvement in the editing progress. The interests of the reader is the life of the journal. We have spent a lot of spare time, but there still be some mistakes in the journal. So, welcome to supervision both from readers and authors, improving our work.
In 2008, we must do our best in every detail. Be lenient with others and strict with oneself, honest to the world to offer the true information to the readers. No plagiarism, no coinages, no flippancy, to set up a clean academic space jointly.