中国正在走向2000年,走向世界,走向现代化,这是中国时代的大走向。在走向未来的过程中,如何选择正确的途径,离不开科学预测。要作出科学的预测,必须在搜集大量的资料情报、进行充分超前研究之后才可能实现。人类活动高于其它动物活动的一个显要特征就是能够高瞻远瞩地规划未来、控制未来,而资料情报工作的超前性研究正集中地体现了人类活动的 China is heading toward the year 2000, to the world and to modernization. This is a major trend of China’s time. In the process of going to the future, how to choose the right way can not be separated from scientific predictions. To make a scientific prediction, it is only after a large amount of information and intelligence has been collected and sufficient advanced research is conducted. An important feature of human activity over other animal activities is the ability to plan the future with a long-term perspective and to control the future. Advanced research in information and intelligence work is focused on human activities