中国经济地理学的发展方向

The Development Directions of China's Economic Geography

文章首先回顾了国际经济地理学发展历程,其发展不仅是当时的社会经济背景下的产物,还受来自包括经济学在内的其他学科的影响,并具有坚实的科学哲学基础。本文认为中国经济地理学需要在认清国内外社会经济发展形势的基础上,坚持优良传统——服务国家发展的战略需求,并积极占领国际学术战略高地;需要在加强具体问题理论研究的同时,加强科学哲学和方法论基础;需要在坚持地理学基本思维和方法的基础上,广泛吸收外来学科的知识;需要坚持核心科学问题与研究议题多样性的有机统一;需要努力改善学术生态环境,为中国经济地理学大发展提供人才保障。文章最后指出,未来经济地理学的重大研究领域应该包括区域可持续发展分析与模拟,区域间利益协调和补偿机制,全球化、金融危机对中国区域发展的影响,地方经济发展研究新变化,气候变化区域响应,区域自然灾害的预警、危机恢复管理等。

Economic geography is the discipline of studying the location,distribution and spatial organization of economic activities.China's economic geography has made remarkable achievements in the past 70 years,but there are also some drawbacks.How to seize the new development opportunity to make great progress at the new historical starting point is a common task of China's economic geographers.This paper reviews the development process of economic geography within the international academic community,and has found out that its development is greatly influenced not only by the broad socio-economic backgrounds,but also by the advances from other disciplines including economics,and it has solid philosophical foundations.This paper strongly argues that China's economic geography needs to(1) meet strategic demands of national development,and try to make significant and original contributions to the international academic community;(2)theoretically and empirically study multiple specific issues,and strengthen the scientific basis of the philosophy and methodology;(3)extensively absorb the new knowledge from foreign subjects,but adhere to the basic ideas and methods of geography;(4)be interested in multiple concrete research topics but focus on the core scientific issues;(5)improve academic environments in order to offer a rich and high-qualified talent pool for the great development of China's economic geography in the coming future.The future major research fields of economic geography in China involve: analysis and simulation of regional sustainable development,inter-regional coordination of interests and compensation mechanisms,impact mechanisms of globalization and financial crisis on regional development,new changes and trends of local economic development,regional response to climate change,recovery management of natural disaster crisis.