PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING RELATING TO ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY DEVELOPMNET IN CHINA
从科学哲学角度分析中国经济地理学面临的问题，如实践能力减弱、研究脱离地理学，并提出加强基础理论创新、服务企业等发展建议。
Economic geography is an important subject of geography.But its practices and theory are meeting many serious problems and facing stern challenges at present in China.The problems include its practical ability is weakening though its practical scope has greatly expanded,its research has been away from geography while extending,and the geographical accomplishment of research scholars is decreasing.All of those have been damaging the scientific image of economic geography.Then,the paper augments that indistinct research object,incomplete theory system,research measure and methods' lag are the main reasons that result in the problems from scientific philosophy.By the analyses,the authors make some suggestions for economic geography development in China.Firstly,because the problems economic geography face can't be solved in the short term,we should promote discussion and debasing,cultivate good academic atmosphere.Secondly,we should strengthen the innovation of application research based on the innovation of basic theory.To serve firm and corporation should be an important practical direction of economic geography.Thirdly,we should exert ourselves to renew research measure and methods.Economic geography needs mathematics and models,but those can't be basic philosophical criterion that economic geography becomes mature science.Lastly,we should overcome the flippancy emotion and dive into research.