GLACIERS AND RELATED ENVIRONMENTS IN CHINA

However，duetolanguagedifferencebetweenChinaandthewesterncountries，theprogressofglaciologyinChina，ofwhichmostaccountshavebeenpublishedinChinese，isdifficultforwesternscientiststoappreciate.Therefore，wedecidedtopublishanEnglisheditionbasedonGlaciersandTheirEnvironmentsinChina——thePresent，PastandFuture（inChinese），asyouseehere，namedGlaciersandRelatedEnvironmentsinChina，whichinfactisanoptimizedversion，withnewresearchdatatill2005andarevisedstructure.Itisourhope，throughpublishingthismonograph，toenableforeignscientiststounderstandsystematicallythecurrentsituationandhistoricalprogressofglacierresearchandotherrelevantenvironmentalstudieswithintheChineseterritory，soastopromotemorecooperationwithforeignglaciologists，whoalsosharethewishtodevelopfurtherthefieldandtofaceeffectivelythewidespreadconcernsasglobalwarming，watercyclechanges，glaciershrinkinganddeterioratingenvironments.