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Formally, it is to be in line with international standards. From a practical point of view, China's academics are still at a low ebb, and it needs to be compared with foreign countries to find a way out, so making English abstracts in academic training is one way. When Buddhism first came to China, it took hundreds or even thousands of people with high IQ to translate a Buddhist scripture. On this basis, Zen and Neo-Confucianism emerged. Therefore, there is also a process to digest English.
Stereotyped writing has been common since ancient times. In history, most people who wrote poems were stereotyped writers. The key is not the form of his death, but his living thoughts. Mao Zedong's articles are magnificent, and his arguments are rigorous and powerful. In fact, his starting points are mainly Mencius, Zhuangzi and Han Yu. The vitality of stereotyped writing is there, and the key lies in his thought.
China lags behind the west in engineering. Once it is published in English, it can be searched by others, and it can be compared with the relevant technologies in the corresponding western countries, which is conducive to the revision and improvement of my paper. At the same time, China is building a well-off society in an all-round way. Reform and opening up is a necessary channel, and academic exchanges are more important. Therefore, English abstracts can provide a convenient platform for academic exchanges between China and the West. In the above sense, it is a well-meaning thing to ask for an English abstract in the paper.