中文摘要：

由李小建教授独著、科学出版社2016年出版的《中国特色经济地理探索》在同行中引起较大反响。李小建教授在新作中第一次明确提出创建“中国特色的经济地理学”，为中国经济地理学的发展提出了一个新方向。全书分为经济地理学理论探索、农户地理研究、公司地理研究、经济地理学的小尺度研究、区域研究，共5篇48章。此书基于作者30多年的研究，对国际背景下中国特色经济地理学进行了多视角的探索，充分反映了李小建教授的创新性学术思想、脚踏实地的研究态度，包括从中国特殊国情探索建立中国特色经济地理学，主张经济地理学的“地理”传统，一贯坚持经济地理学微观研究、“学”有所用和实证研究。

英文摘要：

The monograph ＂New Approaches to Economic Geography： A Chinese Perspective＂ written by professor Li Xiaojian in Henan University and published by Science Press in 2016, has been caused a strong reaction in the academic circles of economic geography in China. This book summarize the results of his researches, most of the ideas has been publicized in his publications and has 48 chapters in 5 parts, each part focusing on a certain aspect, on the theoretical approaches, investigation of the rural households, corporation geography, small-scale geographic researches and regional investigations as well. Professor Li Xiaojian has firstly proposed ＂creating economic geography with chinese characteristics＂ in his new book, which indicates a new direction of chinese economic geography. So all these research work demonstrate his aim to advocate special Chinese economic geography from multiple perspectives, at the same time reflect his fresh and creative thinking and down-to-earth study attitude. For example, he argues that economic geography should be a branch or subdivision of geography while more and more researchers adopt somewhat economical viewpoints towards the understanding of economic geography, focuses on micro-researches to understand the basic unit of geographical phenomena and exhibit the anatomy of geographical phenomena, advocates the practicability of economic geography in dealing with regional development problems, and put more emphasis on empirical study with first-hand data about various types of enterprises and rural households.