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aphy in China: Progress and suggestionsLIU Weidong and LU Dadao(Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, 100101)Abstract Economic geography is one of the most dynamic branches of geography with its diverse study scopes. Such a feature can be attributed mainly to the phenomenon under study, . economic activity, which is everchanging and displays big spatial differences across countries and even regions. Another feature of economic geography is its interdisciplinary approach, which considers both physical and human factors. These two features enable economic geography to be an appropriate and necessary tie in the studies of global/regional environmental changes by various disciplines and to be the basis of sustainable development studies at various scales. While the emphasis of economic geography studies in AngloAmerican countries is put on theoretical debates, economic geography in China has taken the satisfaction of practical demands as its primary target of development, which makes Chinese economic geographers widely recognized by various government departments. In China, the discipline is experiencing theoretical reconstruction as a result of the institutional transformation, and the primary issue contemporarily confronted by the discipline there is regional and urban sustainable development. Future development of the discipline should treat correctly the relationships between satisfying practical demands and academic researches, primary issue and concrete research topics, macro researches and micro case studies, etc. Key words: economic geography, contemporary development, suggestions to future development劉衛(wèi)東:中國科學(xué)院地理科學(xué)與資源研究所副研究員,中國地理學(xué)會經(jīng)濟地理專業(yè)委員會副主任,《Progress in Human Geography》編委。1967年4月出生于河北隆化。1988年畢業(yè)於北京大學(xué)地理系經(jīng)濟地理專業(yè),1991年於中國科學(xué)院地理研究所獲碩士學(xué)位並留所工作。1996年赴香港大學(xué)地質(zhì)地理系攻讀博士學(xué)位,2000年獲博士學(xué)位後返回地理所工作。長期從事經(jīng)濟地理學(xué)研究工作,主要研究領(lǐng)域包括區(qū)域發(fā)展差異、全球化對地區(qū)發(fā)展的影響、資訊化與社會經(jīng)濟的空間重組等。已發(fā)表論文近40篇,其中SSCI收錄論文2篇。