吴传钧院士对发展中国农业地理学的贡献

The Contributions of Academician Wu Chuanjun to Modern Agricultural Geography in China

吴传钧先生是杰出的地理学家、地理教育家。他热衷于农业地理学研究,是中国现代农业地理学的带头人。在70多年的科学研究与教育生涯中,农业地理学既是先生科学研究的起点,也是他科研工作的重点。先生在农业地理学领域的研究工作及其贡献可简要归纳为3个方面:①缘于深厚的农业地理情结,率先开展农业资源调查、农业区划的理论与方法探索;②结合国家重大项目研究,精心组织和深入开展农业地理学理论的系统研究与总结;③基于人地关系地域系统理论,率先研究提出中国不同类型区域的农业与农村发展问题、机制和方向。这些开创性的学术研究及成就,为建立具有中国特色的现代农业地理学理论与方法体系做出了重要贡献。

Academician Wu Chuanjun is a distinguished geographer as well as a geography educator in China. He was born in Suzhou city in April 2, 1918. In his more than 70 years of scientific research and education career, Academician Wu has opened up a series of important research fields in contemporary Chinese geography, and has made academic contributions for the development of China＇s geography, professional personnel training. Mr. Wu is hereby value of his ninetieth birthday, this paper briefly describes his outstanding contributions in terms of his work in modem agricultural geography for which we extend our sincere congratulations. Academician Wu keens on research in the field of agricultural geography more then half century; he is one of the main inaugurators of Chinese modem agricultural geography. His contributions of theory and practice in agricultural geography study are as the follows： take the lead in investigating agricultural resources, agricultural regionalization theories and methods; systematically study and synthesize the agricultural geography theory; reveal the different types and directions of regional agriculture and rural development under the recent process of the rapid urbanization and industrialization in China.