今天在北京召开全国农村能源学术讨论会,同时成立中国沼气协会,这是一个有意义的会议。我们党和国家正处于四化建设的新的历史时期,开展这方面的学术讨论和研究是完全必要的,很及时的,这时于促进我们农村能源的发展有它的现实意义,它还将要在我们国家的历史上起一个长远的作用。因此,我向全国到会的专家、科技工作者、农业科技战线上的同志们表示祝贺,对在沼气和其它农村能源事业做出贡献的同志们表示热烈的祝贺。党中央、国务院十分重视我们国家的能源问题,并且把发展能源放在发展国民经济的首要地位。能源不发展,我们的农业、轻 It is a meaningful meeting today to hold a symposium on rural energy in Beijing and to set up the China Biogas Association. Our Party and our country are in a new historical period of the four modernizations. It is absolutely necessary and timely for us to carry out academic discussions and research in this field. At this time, it is of great realistic significance to promote the development of our rural energy. Have a long-term role in the history of our country. Therefore, I congratulate the experts, scientists and technicians who attend the meeting across the country, the comrades on the agricultural science and technology front and extend my warm congratulation on the comrades who contributed to the cause of methane and other rural energy. The Central Party Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the energy issue in our country and give top priority to energy development in developing the national economy. Energy does not develop, our agriculture, light