每当我们针对有些同志不重视统计工作而强调统计的重要性时,常常引用毛主席“胸中有数”等等论述,这当然是必要的。但我也不禁想到:早在公元前六、七世纪,我国不是就有管仲“不明于计数而欲举大事,犹无舟楫而欲经於水险也”的名言吗?不是就有孔子乘车外出遇见送人口报表的小吏就行礼致敬(“式页版者”)的佳话吗?而关于我国古代统计发展 Of course, whenever we emphasize the importance of statistics in the light of the fact that some comrades do not attach importance to statistics, it is certainly necessary to quote Chairman Mao’s “excuse”. But I can not help but think of it: As early as the sixth and seventh centuries BC, there was not a famous saying of Guan Zhong, “I do not know how to count but want to hold a big event. Go out to meet the demographic report submitted to the small official salute (”type page") of the story? And on China’s ancient statistical development