由中国地质学会岩溶地质专业委员会和贵州省洞穴协会联合举办的第四届全国岩溶学术会议在贵州省贵阳市单行。来自全国各主要岩溶分布省份和中央各部委科研教学和生产部门的77个单位计122名代表参加了会议。他们中有年逾古稀的老教授,也有年仅二十余岁的青年科技工作者。在经济大潮席卷全国下海成风的今天,能聚集起这么多的同仁,交流岩溶科研成果、勾通学科发展信息、探讨岩溶研究的新思 The 4th National Karst Academic Conference, jointly organized by the Chinese Geological Society Karst Geological Commission and the Guizhou Provincial Cave Association, is a one-stop shop in Guiyang, Guizhou Province. A total of 122 representatives from 77 units of the major karst provinces and central scientific teaching and production departments of the ministries and commissions in the country attended the meeting. Among them are old seventy-year-old professors and young technologists who are only twenty years old. Today, when the economic boom swept the whole country into the sea, we can gather so many colleagues and share the achievements of scientific research in karst.