Chinese regional geography

Author: Han Yuanfeng
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: China Regional Geography is a key textbook under the "Nineth Five-Year Plan" for higher education in Guangdong Province. It can be used as a teaching material for the main courses "China Geography" and "Regional Geography" in the General Catalogue and Introduction of Undergraduate Majors promulgated by the Ministry of Education in 1998. China Regional Geography is a discipline that studies the spatial patterns of the interaction between nature and human society in specific regions of China, serving regional development. The specific content of China Regional Geography includes: China's location and administrative divisions, regional comprehensiveness, regional evolution, regional division, regional population and culture, land surface resources and development, land mineral resources and development, marine resources, regional connections and circulation, urban area analysis, and regional development, totaling 11 chapters. It has changed the traditional "trifurcation" of nature, economy, and culture, as well as the "patchwork" of elements (departments) in regional geography research in China. It has made active explorations in the innovation of the discipline system. China Regional Geography belongs to the discipline of regional geography within geographic sciences, with China as the research region. Originally, it could have been called "China Geography," but since it differs from traditional Chinese geography in terms of discipline system, academic thought, and explanatory methods, the name China Regional Geography reflects its reform efforts and emphasizes the important role of regional geography in cultivating undergraduate talents in geographic sciences for the 21st century.