Study on Construction and Developent of Human-Economic Geography—an Overview of the Symposium on Future Development of Human-Economic Geography
综述了中国人文经济地理学未来发展研讨会的讨论，明确了学科应坚持自然与人文轨迹时空演化的基础研究，并服务于国家、地方和部门需求，以推动可持续发展。
As an inter-discipline,human-economic geography has made great progress in China,but there is three differentiation phenomena existing in the process.Therefore,for promoting human-economic geography developing better and faster,human-economic geographers from major universities and institutions in China came together and discussed the future development of human-economic geography,proposed the strategic considerations of human-economic geography in the future,and gave suggestion to advance the discipline development while serving the country,local and sector demands.Based on the discussion,the symposium clarified the orientation of the discipline development: Firstly,human-economic geography must adhere to the essential researches on the temporal and spatial evolution of interaction between natural orbits and human orbits,for the purpose of sustainable development of the earth surface system in different spatial scales,as so to construct the discipline system.Secondly,human-economic geography should show the scientific value in the social application system,and carry out extensive researches on sustainable development for making significant contribution to society.