A focus of international attention I hope that this book can be read by Chinese ten years or even twenty years from now, so they can understand the river from its source to its as yet not fully developed areas--its resources, including human and natural resources. I wanted to make a record of these resources today so that in the future we will know what we have lost.
我希望這本書還能給十年、甚至廿年以後的中國人看，讓他們知道長江從江源到尚未完全開發的地方，擁有什麼樣的資源，包括人文及自然資源，現在將這些資源記錄下來，將來便可以知道我們失掉了什麼。