七十年代以来,我国区域经济发展问题大量出现,为了对这些具有重大实践意义和理论意义问题进行研究,经济地理学应以区域总体决策研究为主要目标,以结构研究为主要内容,在传统方法的基础上,应用与发展区域分析方法,研制区域开发模型,经济地理各分支学科应加强联合,共同展开区域综合研究。

There have come out a large number of problems on regional devel opment in China since 1970s, of which some problems, having important contents or significance within the scope of economic geography in both practices and theories, should be contained.1. Laying down strategy and orientation for regional economic development;2. Setting up the territorial production complexes and putting out the criterions of rational agglomeration;3. The problem of central cities and regional development;4. Choosing of the regions priorly exploited and the access to the others for developing;5. Economic development and urbanization in the rural area;6. Prediction and modeling of regional development.Focusing upon the studies of regional comprehensive deicsionmaking and spatial structure as the major contents, the cooperation among all branches of economic geography should be strengthened so that new methodologies of regional analysis ane the regional developing models based on the traditional analysis could be borne and put into practice in order to tackle these problems mentioned above.