编修地方志在我国已有两千多年的漫长历史，本届修志中如何在吸收旧志传统精华的基础上有所创新，这是我们《桂林市志》（以下简称市志）在编纂过程中，自始至终追求的目标和谋篇设目等一切工作的出发点。旧志由于受时代的局限，不可避免地存在这样那样的不足，这是可以理解的 It has been more than two thousand years since the revision of the local chronicles in our country. How to innovate on the basis of absorbing the traditional essence of the old records? This is the process of compiling the Guilin Chronicles In the pursuit of the goal from beginning to end and all the work set out the starting point. It is understandable that the old records inevitably have such shortcomings due to the limitation of the times