Today, 27 years ago, on February 8, 1998 (Lunar Calendar January 12, 1998), the "Simple Chinese Encyclopedia" was published. On February 8, 1998, China's publishing community "Key Project" "Simple Chinese Encyclopedia" publication seminar was held in the People's Hall. This encyclopedia, published by the WASHINGTON Publishing Company, the capital of the Chinese bookstore, is a major encyclopedia after the "Great Chinese Encyclopedia" and its simplified edition. This book gathers the wisdom of more than 60 disciplines, 4,000 experts and scholars, a total of 350,000 independent dictionaries, 24 million words, eight-volume printed, covering many disciplinary aspects of natural science, engineering and technology, social science and culture and art. The set-up and dictionary arrangements for the first time adopted