中文摘要：

从地理学和区域经济学理论出发，综合考虑社会、经济与资源环境条件，构建区域发展综合评价模型，选取表征社会进步、经济发展、资源环境支持3个子系统的27个指标，采用熵值法对评价指标进行赋权，建立综合发展指数对江苏省65个县（市）进行评价。在区域发展差异分区的基础上，提出了江苏省区域发展的新格局，并对区域空间布局规划进行了探讨。

英文摘要：

From the view of sustainable development, comprehensive assessing for regional development disparities in Jiangsu province was carried out in this paper through the characters of regional development. As a complex system, comprehensive regional development composed of 27 indicators from three sub-systems in societal progress, economy development and resource and environment support. Based on the result of regional development disparities at county level, the author brought out a new division of four comprehensive zones for regional development in Jiangsu, i. e. , Nanjing-Zhenjiang-Yangzhou comprehensive zones of economic and politic, Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou comprehensive zones of high and new technology, Yancheng-Lianyungang-Nantong comprehensive zones along coastal areas and Xuzhou- Suqian-Huai＇an comprehensive zones of abdominal region. Finally, methods for spatial structure planning were suggested.