Now China is in the stage that industrialization is developing at a high speed with the background of the economic globalization and the rapid development of science and technology worldwide as well as the increasingly heavy pressure of the population, natural resources and environment. We are living and developing on the same earth. When confronting all the great challenges in the 21st century, scientists and engineers all over the world should make concerted efforts to do something and work hard to make the earth our beautiful homeland.
In the century just ended, engineering recorded its grandest accomplishments. The widespread development and distribution of electricity and clean water, automobiles and airplanes, radio and television, spacecraft and lasers, antibiotics and medical imaging, and computers and the Internet are just some of the highlights from a century in which engineering revolutionized and improved virtually every aspect of human life.
