在分析中国经济地理学研究存在问题的基础上,对经济地理学今后发展提出了若干建议:开展现代自然过程及其驱动力研究,促进地理学各分支学科的高层次综合,完善并发展地理学基础理论,逐步走向国际科学研究前沿;面向国家宏观决策需要,开展与可持续发展有关的政策性研究;高度重视研究方法、手段的更新,提高经济地理学研究的科学性;引进相关学科人才,促进学科交叉,是经济地理学发展的捷径;面向社会需求,开展区域规划与产业布局研究。

This paper analyses the problems existing in the research of the Chinese economic geography, and makes some suggestions for the future development as follows:carrying out the research on modern natural process and its driving force; promoting the high-level synthesis of sub-disciplines of geography, perfecting and developing the fundamental theory of geography, gradually advancing on international scientific research; carrying out the policy research related to sustainable development in order to meet the need of national macro-policy-making; paying great attention to the research method and way renewal so as to raise the science nature of geographical research; introducing relevant discipline personnel and promoting discipline intersection are the shortcut of economic geography development; according to the demand of society carrying out the research on regional planning and industrial allocation.