本文回顾了建国以来关于区域发展与开发问题的研究的历史与现状及今后的趋势,论述了新时期地理学的主要方向。最后,提出深入进行我国区域开发和发展研究的若干问题。

The problems on regional development appeared widely in the 1980s will become important and extensive social and economic issues in the 1990s.The development of geography should meet the needs of objective requirements.The major target of regional development research is to realize the stable growth of regional economy,and to rationalize the spatial structure of social economy.The related research should be done multi-disciplinarily in coorperation with economists,ecologists and systematic scientists emphasizing on the theoretical and empirical analysis regional development and developing experimental sites.