自1901年张相文编纂我国近代最早的地理教科书——《初等地理教科书》和《中等本国地理教科书》出版以来,我国近、现代地理学已走过了百年岁月。以《地理学报》为研究对象,对其自创刊以来所有载文进行检索和分类统计。从中发现,中国地理学近百年来在曲折中前进,日益走向繁荣;领域构成从单调到丰富,专业体系日趋完善,地理学的人文化、技术化趋势非常明显;从引进、学习到与世界同步,中国地理学正在完成质的飞跃。地理工作者对祖国的热爱、对地理学的高度责任感和中国社会进步的内在要求是中国地理学不断发展的根本动力。
One hundred years passed passed after the pioneer geography textbooks of China had published. The Acta Geographica Sinica was chosen as the objeot of research with all of its articles after starting publication searched and statistical analysis of them are carried out. This article summarized the changing rules of research development of Acta Geographica Sinica during the past 70 years. From this, the article opened out the distributing rules of research status in quo, the articles'type, the character of development, and structure of fields and subjects. Based on this, the article carded the development Venation of Geography in China. We reached the following conclusions: the geography of China make its way through handicaps and troubles, and is making for prosperity; the subjects structure and system are becoming from simple to various and perfect, the trend of the humanization and technology in geography application is fairly evident; after few years of introduction and leaning from the west, the Chinese geography is now in-phase with the west, and is making further development; the geographers'love and responsibility for China and for geography, the internal requirement of society of China, both serve as the impetus of the development of geography in China.