中国区划工作的回顾与展望

Regionalization in China: retrospect and prospect

在回顾国内外区划工作基础上,总结了我国区划工作各个发展阶段的特点,简单概述了我国区划工作中的方法论,讨论了区划工作中存在的若干问题。20世纪后半叶起,我国的区划研究进入系统研究和全面发展期。这期间我国区划工作的主要特点可归纳为:(1)众多区划方案的提出都有其深刻的历史背景,既是科学的总结,又与我国当时经济发展的水平和需求相关;(2)区划工作多是静态的,不能及时反映变化了的自然和人文要素;(3)现有区划工作未能将自然区划和经济区划很好地结合起来;(4)区划工作大多集中在陆地系统,对海洋系统的关注不够;(5)在区划方案的认定上,没有制度化的保障。为此,有必要在我国开展综合区划研究,并就编制我国综合区划方案中存在的一些关键科学问题进行探讨。

Based upon a review on foreign regionalization work, this paper summarized the characteristics of the regionalization work in different stages, gave a brief introduction to the methodology in the regionalization of China, and discussed some issues on the regionalization work. Since the latter half of the 20th century, the regionalization in China has entered a stage of systematic research and all-around development. The main characteristics of the regionalization work in this stage are as follows. First, the various regionalization schemes are based on their historical background respectively. They are the scientific work closely related to the economic development and social demands at the time. Roughly speaking, research on the regionalization in China had mainly served agricultural production since the 1950s. Since the 1980s, the research had been concentrated on economic development. Since the 1990s, the regionalization work has been focused on sustainable development. Second, the work was mostly static and was not able to reflect the dynamics of the changing natural and social factors. And several important boundaries were identified with some assumption and presumption. In recent years, some trends of overemphasizing models and quantification have appeared in regionalization studies. Third, the regionalization studies were inclined to physical geography. The economic geographical regionalization studies were relatively weak. Moreover, current physical and economic regionalization studies are not well related, which has become a limitation to the research of regional sustainable development. Fourth, current regionalization studies focus on terrestrial system, and haven't paid enough attention to marine system. Fifth, the confirmation of regionalization schemes is not institutionally assured yet. So the research results have not been well absorbed by the economic planning of local governments, and the purpose of serving the sustainable socio-economic development has not been realized. Finally, the necessity and importance of carrying out comprehensive regionalization in China was analyzed, and some key scientific issues related with the comprehensive regionalization of China were discussed. The paper pointed out that as a new growing point of regionalization researches, comprehensive regionalization with an integration of natural and social factors will be an important contribution of the human-earthsystem research to the sustainable development.