Since the Contributions Wanted for Written Discussion of Reform and Development of Statistics has been published in 7th issue of statistical research in 2007, the statistical research journal receives many papers written by the people coming from the statistical system, statistical teaching and researching fields and caring for statistics, who put forward some profound suggestions for governmental statistics, statistical administration system, statistical methods and local statistical work. These papers also include the authors’ concern and deep thinking of statistical reform. Some authors introduce international useful experience to promote China’s governmental statistics to be geared to international standards; some authors devote to researching advanced system and approach to improve the quality of statistical data; the other authors put forward feasible suggestions to solve the problems in their practical work, etc. The editor chooses more than twenty representative papers and compiles them to publish in this issue, which will provide reference for China’s statistical reform, promote the rapid development of socialistic statistics, accelerate the reform of governmental statistics and serve for building the harmonious society.
