China's Geographical Grand Strategy

Author: Zhu Xiang
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: China is a traditional agricultural country. Even today, our social structure, industrial composition, operational mechanisms, and ways of thinking are deeply marked by the imprint of agricultural civilization. Against the backdrop of economic globalization, regional economic integration, and full participation in the WTO, how to transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, and then rise to scientific and technological civilization and even ecological civilization, is an arduous task faced by the Chinese nation. On the land of China, a new strategy is anticipated! This book is based on the "Full-Time Compulsory Education Geography Curriculum Standards (Experimental Draft)" and the "General High School Geography Curriculum Standards (Experimental)" promulgated by the Ministry of Education of China. It is a teaching resource textbook for geography courses, grounded in the regional geography of China. The entire book uses specific examples of China's economic development since the reform and opening-up as its content and proposes solutions for the construction of curriculum resources in Chinese geography teaching. The main contents include: geographical thinking innovation, geographical curriculum innovation, research on the regional development of China's economy, scientific understanding of regions, scientific understanding of cities, major projects for comprehensive national development in China, strategies for agricultural and rural development in China, strategies for industrial development in China in the new era, research on the coordinated development of population, resources, and environment in China, and environmental education in the new era. This book is suitable for middle school geography teachers to read and reference, as well as for teachers of politics, history, and other disciplines who are interested in China's development and economic construction, and for the general public.