编者按：新闻出版署于友先署长对我国电子出版工作非常重视。1996年《中国电子出版》创刊时，他曾为本刊提写刊名并发表《努力发展与繁荣中国的电了出版事业》一文。在新世纪即将来临之际，本刊记者走访了于署长，他对目前电子出版业的发展态势谈了自已看法。现摘录刊登如下。 Editor’s note: The Director of Press and Publication Administration Yu Youxian attaches great importance to our electronic publishing work. When China Electronics Publishing was first published in 1996, he wrote a title for the magazine and published a paper titled “Efforts to Develop and Prosper China”. At the dawn of a new century, our correspondents visited the Director and expressed his own views on the development of the electronic publishing industry. The excerpts are published below.