The book is a record of the Symposium 《Geographic Research and its Progress》held in 1990 at Hong,kong,Professor C,L,So and K,W,Chen organized that Symposium,ALL.of the participants are Chinese both from China and ovarseas.With the spirit of epoch the Symposium would take an important place in the history ofgeography,therefore the book which is a proceedings of the Symposium would be a historicalliterature in geography. As far as the content is concerned．the theme of the book rapresentsthe common interests to the geographical community and the whole society．Therefore thebook would very much give impetus to geography．Some disadvantages of the book are presented in the review.The train of thoughts about geography by the Author penetrates the review.