本刊讯去年底,国家建委和国家农委在京召开了第二次全国农村房屋建设工作会议。万里副总理到会作了重要讲话。这次会议强调,要把农房建设工作扩大到有规划地建设村庄和集镇上来,在统一规划下,逐步把我国现在还比较落后的村镇,建设成为现代化的、高度文明的社会主义新村镇。在1978年至1981的四年时间里,全国农村新建住宅达15亿平方米。同不断发展的农村经济一样,农村住宅建设正处于方兴未艾的阶段。随着农村经济的发展,农民也要求丰富文 At the end of last year, the State Construction Commission and the State Agriculture Commission held the second national conference on rural housing construction in Beijing. Vice Premier Wan Li made an important speech at the meeting. The meeting emphasized that we must expand the construction of rural housing to plan the construction of villages and market towns. Under unified planning, we will gradually build our country, which is still relatively backward, into a modern, highly civilized new socialist village. In the four years between 1978 and 1981, the country’s rural new houses reached 1.5 billion square meters. As with the growing rural economy, rural housing construction is in the ascendant stage. With the development of the rural economy, farmers are also demanding a wealth of knowledge.