科学技术和社会经济的发展,要求有一个与其相适应的基础研究,以综合区分区域的特点。综合区划是一种自然区划的深入,包括自然与社会经济两方面,是为区域经济发展服务、符合区域经济发展需要的区域划分。文中在研究自然区划的基础上,引入资源的概念,用资源进行区域的划分,特别是对以往研究不充分的区划第四和第五级单位,以与社会经济发展密切相关的资源组和资源型进行合并,提出综合区划的初步设想。以柴达木盆地为例,建立为区域经济发展服务的综合区划。

Development of science,technology and social economic requires a basic research correspondent with regional social economic development to comprehensively identify regional characteristics.Integrated zonation,which is further researches on natural zonation,combines natural environment with social economic and serves regional economic development.Integrated zonation meets the requirements of regional economic development.In this paper,based on summary of natural zonation,ideology of resources is introduced for regional division.Specifically,"resources groups" and "resources types" which are closely related to social economic development are used to form the fourth level and fifth level classes,the insufficient researched zonation classes before.This paper takes Chaidam Basin case as an example to establish a regional integrated zonation system for the sustainable regional economic development.