郑州大学历史系在把教学和研究的重点转移到面向四个现代化建设的实际时,决定新开“中国生产工具发展史”一课,并为此写成《中国生产工具发展史》一书.全书分五篇:第一篇讲我国原始社会时代生产工具的发生和发展;第二篇讲从奴隶发生到封建领主经济崩溃时代,生产工具的进一步发展;第三篇(战国至隋唐)和第四篇(宋至清),讲在长期封建地主经济关系下,我国生产工具发展的缓慢状态;第五篇 The Department of History of Zhengzhou University decided to open a new lesson entitled “History of the History of Production Tools in China” when it shifted the focus of teaching and research to the actualization of the four modernizations and wrote a book titled “The History of the Development of China’s Production Tools” The book is divided into five chapters: the first one tells about the occurrence and development of production tools in the primitive society of our country; the second one talks about the further development of production tools in the times of slavery and feudal lords’ economic collapse; the third (Warring States to Sui and Tang dynasties) and The fourth (Song to Qing), speaking in the long-term feudal landlord economic relationship, the slow development of China’s production tools; fifth