Ten Years in Retrospect and looking Forward to the Future

The close integration of engineering technique with economical management would be the inexorable trend for the development of modern scientific technology. The development of agricultural engineering should fully reflect its economic character. Since 1981, the Committee of Agriculture Engineering Economics and Management launched following main activities which included: the seminar on the subject of agricultrual regional development; discussion and formulation of evaluation method of economic effects for agriculture engineering project; a special seminar on the methodolagy of feasibility study of agriculture project as well as a symposium on the developing stretegies and developing program of agriculture engineering in the coast areas. All these activities have had positive results and most of them reflected in the field of national agrivulture development program. In future we plan to promote by stages the formulation of agriculture engineering development program, to strengthen the course construction of agriculture engineering economics and management, to compile some related training materials and to develop more activities together with provincial societies in order to make contribution to the develop ment of agriculture engineering for our country.