继续教育在我国的社会主义经济建设中具有战略性的重要意义。因为从一个发展中国家逐步转变成一个中等发达或发达国家,除了政治、经济等因素外,具有一支庞大的高素质、高水平的科技队伍,是在当前激烈竞争的时代,迎接各种挑战,脱颖而出的根本保证。我们已经注意到加快改革积极发展普通教育,把提高教育质量放在突出的地位。我们也正在努力争取在国外的留学人员和引进国外的专家。但是,对我国广大的科技队伍和教育人员的继续教育,使能迅速跟踪高新技术的发展,充分发挥已有生产实践经验,须予以充份重视和保证。本文介绍美国化学工程师学会从八十年代初以来在这方面的活动 Continuing education is of strategic importance in the socialist economic construction of our country. Since a developing country has gradually transformed itself into a medium-developed or developed country, in addition to its political and economic factors, having a large contingent of high-quality and high-level scientific and technological personnel is in the current era of fierce competition and meets various challenges , The fundamental guarantee that come to the fore. We have noticed that speeding up the reform and actively developing general education have placed prominence on improving the quality of education. We are also striving to win more overseas students and bring in foreign experts. However, continuing education of vast numbers of scientific and technological personnel and educators in our country will enable rapid follow-up of the development of new and high technologies and giving full play to the existing practical experience in production, which must be given full prominence and assurance. This article describes the activities of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in this area since the early 1980s