年鉴作为信息资料性工具书，信息含量是权衡其质量的重要标志。近十几年来，我国的年鉴事业蓬勃发展，但是在质量方面也存在不少问题，篇幅过大而信息含量低是其突出问题之一。省级年鉴有的达180万字以上，地市级年鉴有的达百万字以上。年鉴篇幅过大，选材不精，提炼不足，信息 Yearbook as a tool for informational materials, information content is an important symbol of weighing its quality. In the past decade or so, the yearbook industry in our country has flourished, but there are still many problems in terms of quality. Too much space and low information content are one of the outstanding problems. Some of the provincial-level annual reports have reached more than 1.8 million words, and prefectural-level annual accounts have reached more than one million words. Annual space is too large, material is not refined, lack of refining, information