今天我们要建设四个现代化,需要成千上万优秀人才;我们要繁荣文学艺术,需要大批文学家、艺术家。发现人才、爱护人才、培养人才,是我们的当务之急。我们的戏剧创作要发展、繁荣,首先要有大批优秀的剧作者。建国三十五年来,我们已经培养了一批受广大群众欢迎的中青年剧作家,这是不够的。我们需要有更多的在国内、在世界上有影响的卓越的剧作家和巨匠。“长江后浪推前浪,一代新人胜旧人。”这两句俗话符合唯物辩证法的基本原理。后来者超过他们的前辈,是毫无疑问的。我们要做大量工作。我们要为剧作家的培养提供条件,开拓新路。现在学校里,社会上,通过各种方式办学,在培养大批人才。我们现有的高等戏剧艺术院校还满足不了大批青年求学的愿望。因此,创办电视大学、夜大学、函授大学十分必 Today we want to build four modernizations and need tens of thousands of excellent talents. We need to prosper literature and art and need a large number of writers and artists. Finding talents, protecting talents and cultivating talents are our top priorities. Our dramatic creation needs to grow and prosper, starting with a large number of excellent playwrights. Thirty-five years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, we have trained a number of young and middle-aged dramatists who are welcomed by the masses. This is not enough. We need to have more outstanding playwrights and masters in the country, influential in the world. “The waves of the Yangtze River push forward the waves and the new generation wins over the old people.” These two old saying lines accord with the basic principles of materialist dialectics. There is no doubt that latecomers outnumber their predecessors. We have to do a lot of work. We must provide conditions for the playwright’s cultivation and open up new paths. Nowadays, in schools and in society, we run schools in a variety of ways and train a large number of talents. Our existing higher drama academies also fail to meet the desire of a large number of young people to study. Therefore, the founder of TV University, night university, correspondence university is bound to be