今天的中国为什么比任何时候都需要世界地理学

世界地理作为中国地理学的重要分支学科，特指研究中国以外区域或国家的地理学科，是中国特有的学科分类现象。中国地理学的这种内外有别的思想对世界地理发展危害甚大，至今都难以消弭。忽视世界地理研究，就会有只见树木、不见森林之虞。为了贯彻落实党的“十九大”精神，繁荣探索新型科研组织机制，打造一流世界地理学科，服务国家重大国际战略需求，来自国内高校、科研院所的百余人齐聚一堂，探讨中国世界地理学科发展之路。与会专家一致认为：地理学是国家发展的法宝，是立国之本。当前世界政治经济格局加速重构，为中国地理学发展带来了前所未有的历史机遇，也赋予地理学特别是世界地理学学科新的重大历史使命。为此，须充分发挥地理学科的优势和特长，紧跟国家和世界发展大势，树立全球眼光，面向国家重大战略需求，把自然与人文结合起来，面向可持续发展，团结国内各相关单位，进行跨学科研究，提升世界地理学科为二级学科，构建具有中国特色的世界地理学理论体系、逻辑框架和学科范式，提升中国地理学科，特别是世界地理学科服务国家和地方发展的能力。

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As an important branch of China’s geography, world geography refers to the geographical study on regions or countries outside China, which is a special phenomenon of discipline classification in China. This idea that China’s geography has significant difference from China to outside China has done great harm to the development of world geography, which has been difficult to eliminate till now. Ignoring the study on world geography will impose limitations on research horizons, just like seeing partial trees rather than entire forests. In order to implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, prosperously explore new organization mechanisms of scientific research, create the first-class world geography discipline, and serve the needs of the country's major international strategies, more than 100 experts from domestic universities and research institutes gather to discuss the way to the development of China's world geography. The experts agree that geography can be regarded as the foundation of the country and a magic tool of national development. The accelerated reframing of the current world political and economic structure has brought unprecedented historical opportunities for the development of China’s geography, and has endowed geography, especially world geography with the new major historical missions. To this end, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages and specialties of geography, keep up with the development trend of the country and the world, establish a global perspective, face the needs of major national strategies, combine nature and humanities, face sustainable development, unite relevant domestic units to conduct interdisciplinary research, aiming at lifting world geography to a second-level discipline, building up a theoretical system, logical framework and disciplinary paradigm of world geography with Chinese characteristics, and improving the capability of China’s geography, especially world geography, to serve national and local development.