The historical evolution law and planning enlightenment of China's geographical pattern

LI Fangzhou; CHEN Changsong; FANG Xiuqi; ZHANG Yue; GUI Dezhu; WANG Fahao

doi:10.12097/gbc.2022.11.042

2024 Vol. 43, No. 8

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LI Fangzhou, CHEN Changsong, FANG Xiuqi, ZHANG Yue, GUI Dezhu, WANG Fahao. 2024. The historical evolution law and planning enlightenment of China's geographical pattern. Geological Bulletin of China, 43(8): 1384-1394. doi: 10.12097/gbc.2022.11.042

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LI Fangzhou, CHEN Changsong, FANG Xiuqi, ZHANG Yue, GUI Dezhu, WANG Fahao. 2024. The historical evolution law and planning enlightenment of China's geographical pattern. Geological Bulletin of China, 43(8): 1384-1394. doi: 10.12097/gbc.2022.11.042

The historical evolution law and planning enlightenment of China's geographical pattern

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Development Research Center for Surveying and Mapping, MNR, Beijing 100830, China
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Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

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Corresponding author: CHEN Changsong, chencs@drcmnr.cn

Received Date: 30 November 2022

Revised Date: 12 May 2023

Publish Date: 15 August 2024

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Tracing the evolution of the natural geographical pattern over the past thousand years by historical logic can better support policy recommendations for the future development of China’s territory condensed by administrative logic. We reviewed a large number of literature and summarized the unique natural environmental foundations and historical evolution laws of each region and zone, in order to propose policy recommendations for national spatial planning by historical, scientific, and administrative logic. We found that the modern geographical pattern of China has been formed by the billions years of evolution over geological period and ten thousand years of human activities over historical period. Under the influence of geological structures, monsoon movements, and river shaping during geological period, China’s land has differentiated into 3 natural regions (Eastern Monsoon Region, Northwest Arid−semiarid Region, Tibetan Plateau) and 2 transition zones (Farming−pastoral Zone, Coastal Zone). In historical period, humans have formed distinct production and lifestyle patterns tailored to local conditions, continuously transforming the spatial structure of the country, and thus forming each region’s and zone’s unique regional evolutionary histories. And we provided a detailed explanation and summary of the evolution process and laws in each region and zone, thus proposing suggestions for the national territory developing and protecting, such as following the natural ecological restriction and historical development law, maintaining the reasonable combination and material−energy exchange between natural and human ecosystem, and optimizing spatial pattern in transition zones.
- China’s geographical pattern /
- historical evolution /
- national territory /
- natural geographical regions /
- planning implication

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