一九八一年初春的一个早晨,我陪同外宾驱车经过上海南京西路,只见上海图书馆门前排列着一条长长的队伍,人们在等候图书馆开放,队伍中大都是青年人。这件事出现在学习成风的现在,也就不足为奇。而在当时,十年内乱造成的读书无用论的流毒尚未肃清,社会风气还没有好转,不少人对青年一代已失去信心,这个情况的出现引起了我的注意。几天以后的一个早晨,我又来到上海市图书馆,门前依然排列着很长的队伍。我对这支队伍从头至尾巡视了一遍,果然都是年轻人。他们有的在阅 One morning in the early spring of 1981, accompanied by foreign guests, I drove past Shanghai’s Nanjing West Road. I saw a long queue in front of the Shanghai Library. People were waiting for the opening of the library. Most of the teams were young people. It is not surprising that this is the moment when learning how to become a man. However, at that time, the flow of drug uselessness caused by the 10-year civil war has not yet been cleared up, the social ethos has not improved, and many people have lost their confidence in the younger generation. This situation has caught my attention. One morning after a few days, I went to the Shanghai Library again, with a long queue in front of me. I visited the team from start to finish again, it really is young. Some of them are reading