中国科学院于11月20—28日在江苏无锡召开了有土壤学、土壤微生物学和植物生理学的工作者一百余人参加的土壤工作会議,就总結我国所特有的丰富經驗,抓住土壤学研究的大西瓜、根据中国的实际发展土壤学、使我国土壤科学位于世界先进地位的問題进行了充分的討論。中国科学院副院長竺可禎、祕書長裴丽生都在会上講了話,裴丽生同志并做了会議总結,对今后的工作做了重要指示。首先,会議一致認为目前在土壤科学工作中还存在兩条道路的斗爭,会議期间大家运用批評和自我批評的武器,联系到工作和思想实际,对于脫离生产、脱离实际、脫离羣众的資产阶級学术观点进行了严格的批判。这种观点从單純的土壤地理学的“自然”观点出发,使土壤学距农業生产越来越远;强調科学院的 Chinese Academy of Sciences convened a soil working conference attended by more than one hundred workers in soil science, soil microbiology and plant physiology in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province from November 20 to November 28 to sum up the rich experience unique to China, The study of watermelon, according to China’s actual development of soil science, so that China’s soil science is located in the advanced position of the issue for a full discussion. Zhu Kezhen, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Pei Lisheng, the secretary-general, both addressed the meeting. Comrade Pei Lisheng made a summary of the meeting and gave important instructions on his future work. First of all, the meeting agreed that at present there are still two struggles in the soil science work. During the meeting, everyone used the weapons of criticism and self-criticism to connect themselves with work and ideological realities, and to separate themselves from production and from the masses Bourgeois academic point of view has been strictly criticized. This view from the pure “natural” point of view of soil geography, so that the soil distance from agricultural production farther and farther;