There has been significant progress in certain areas of software engineering in China during the past five years. This volume is the first in a series of reports on outstanding results by Chinese computer scientists. It consists of twelve papers contributed by leading computer scientists in China. This book is a must for all professionals engaged in software engineering research. Contents:Parsgen, A Parser Generator for Natural Languages (X-W Ma)Recursive Family — A Language Feature for Concurrent Programming (C-Y Yuan)The Implementation of a CSP + PASCAL System on Computers with Single Processors (Z-C Wei)Tuili — A Language for Expert Systems (R-Q Lu)Some Research on Non-von Neumann Programming Systems (J-F Xu et al.)Crane Scheduling Problems with Precedence Constraints and Their NP-Completeness (J-S Wang)The Catalog Management Strategy of the Distributed Data Base System C-Porel (L-X Zhou)The Architecture and Strategies of Expert Union (R-Q Lu)Interactive Environment Building System BUILDER (M-S Ding & J-H Ji)A Use of Synchronic Distances (W-M Lu)The Structure of Weak Inverse of a Finite Automaton with Bounded Error Propagation (S-H Chen & R-J Tao)3S Routing Algorithm (Y Gu) Readership: Computer scientists.