中国航海学会于1997年12月16日在无锡召开四届一次常务理事会扩大会议。学会常务理事、各专业委员会、期刊编辑部和地区学会的负责人共70人出席了会议。江苏省交通厅、无锡市政府有关领导也参加了会议。会议听取并审议了林祖乙理事长所作的学会工作报告,听取并审议了理事变更和财务工作报告。会议对一年来学会在学术交流、决策咨询、科普及夏令营、书刊出版、培训与再教育、厂会合作、自身建设以及清理整顿等方面所做的大量工作给予了充分的肯定,对面临的困难进行了具体分析,尤其就经济体制转轨、将建设有中国特色社会主义全面推向21世纪形势下,学会如何开展工作,以及改革等问题进行了深入讨论,一致认为,中国航海学会作为一支航海界 China Navigation Academy held an enlarged meeting of the first executive council in Wuxi on December 16, 1997. A total of 70 people attended the conference, including standing directors, professional committees, periodical editorial departments and regional institutes. Jiangsu Provincial Department of Communications, Wuxi municipal government leaders also attended the meeting. The meeting listened to and reviewed the report of the Institute made by Chairman Lin Zu-b and listened to and considered the report on the change of directors and the financial work. The conference fully affirmed the great efforts made in the academic exchanges, decision-making consulting, popular science and summer camps, publication of books and magazines, training and re-education, cooperation between factories and institutes, self-construction and clean-up and rectification in the past year. In particular, he conducted a detailed discussion on the transition of economic system, comprehensively pushing forward the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century, how to carry out his work and how to reform. He agreed that China Navigation Society as a seafaring Sector