我国正在向市场经济过渡,中国石油天然气总公司正在向国际化迈进,改革正在深化.发达国家100多年来形成的石油工业科技体系和管理制度,可以成为我们管理体制改革的参考,我们应当了解它、研究它.本刊从这期起陆续向您介绍一些国外大石油公司的情况,目的在于增强了解,“洋为中用”,使我们在向市场经济过渡中引为借鉴。——编者 China is making its transition to a market economy and China National Petroleum Corporation is making progress toward internationalization and its reform is being deepened. The oil industry science and technology system and management system formed in more than 100 years in developed countries can serve as a reference for our management system reform. We should understand that , To study it.From this issue one after another to introduce you to a number of foreign large oil companies, the purpose is to enhance understanding, “foreign for the use of”, so that we in the transition to a market economy as a reference. --editor