Status and strategic thought on Country Geography in the new era:From the perspective of National Natural Science Foundation of China
As the world's second largest economy,China today is integrating into the world at an unpreceden-ted rate.In order to serve the national foreign development strategy,better understand and integrate into the world,and inject new disciplinary imputes into the development of geography discipline,it is necessary to em-phasize the development of Country Geography.Based on the data of Country Geography projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)from 1986 to 2022,this paper analyzed the applica-tion and funding status of projects about country geography from the perspective of the NSFC,examined the distribution of its research hotspots,presented its current problems and shortcomings,further explored its con-ceptual connotation and positioning in the whole Geography disciplinary system,revealed the mechanism for country geography supporting the development of Geography,and finally proposed development strategies for the discipline of Country Geography on this basis.Results show that:1)The number of application and fund-ing of Country Geography projects is relatively low,and the matching degree between the regional pattern of the research and the overall layout of the national strategy is not enough,which can not meet the needs of na-tional geographic services to serve the national policy.2)The NSFC received a total of 344 applications for Country Geography projects from 1986 to 2022,distributed in four major fields of geopolitics,natural environ-ment,energy economy and social culture,and there are obvious differences in spatial and temporal scales among the three major subdisciplines of Physical Geography,Human Geography and Information Geography for the research of Country Geography.3)Country Geography serves the needs of the national foreign strategy,provides abundant and diverse materials for geography theory innovation,and presents new application fields for the data-driven research paradigm of geoscience,thus injecting new dynamics into the development of geo-graphy discipline and is the major growth point for geography discipline.4)Country Geography should strengthen the study of key countries and regions in the future with the improvement from organization of teams,interdisciplinary integration,and dynamic models.
Country Geographyresearch patternNational Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)geographical sciencediscipline development
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