The periodical edit is an important factor that decides the periodical quantity, the quantity that raises the periodical edit is then inevitable choice of the periodical existence.

Three things a periodical editor should do in everyday work;

The cultivation of periodical editor’s quality under the condition of market economy;

The job of periodical editors is complex and sucsessive, which needs not only creativity on synthetical brain labor, but also the thought of working as maritage for others .

This paper sets forth the comprehensive qualities demanded on journal editors in the information age and it is hoped that it ll be beneficial for newly fellow editors.

To improve the journal editors informational accomplishment includes strengthening their awareness of information, enriching their "information bank", enhancing their skills to utilize and master informational tools, so as to help cultivate their ability to evaluate, analyze and utilize information comprehensively and accurately, and to achieve extensive and effective choice of information.

The article summarizes the process of the periodical catalogue in China and current situation in the 1990 s,then it forecasts the trends in the future.

Social gathering: a bridge for communication and cooperation between journal editors;

A modern journal editor should play different roles in his work,namely an editor,a processor,a typist as well as a prove reader.

Based on the reguirements of journal editing in information age,the essay expounds the connotation of a journal editor s information qualities,and explicates the qualities of an editor: sound information awareness,great power in information,rich information knowledge,noble information morality.