The Geographic Atlas of China is a large-scale comprehensive atlas, and its editing and publishing has many meanings: perfecting the textbook package of Geography of China in colleges and universities all over the country has important practical value and theoretical significance for improving the teaching quality; Promote the education of citizens (especially those with high school education or above), and provide visual tools for governments and social institutions at all levels to understand the national conditions of China, which is of social popularization significance; Integrating and comprehensively displaying the new progress of geographical science research in China provides reference for scientific research and teaching personnel in the fields of geography, resources and environment, and has important academic support. It is of great significance to build a platform for exchanges between China and foreign countries and promote the world's understanding of China. It is of practical and social significance to serve middle school teachers, compile geography courses and textbooks and promote the development of geography teaching maps.

The Geographic Atlas of China is a brand-new thematic map textbook for teachers and students of geography and related majors in China universities, and serves as a reference atlas for the teaching and research of "Geography of China" in China universities. Atlas has the following characteristics and functions: systematically displaying the distribution characteristics and regional differentiation laws of various geographical elements in China, and constructing a regional geographical knowledge system; Show the dynamic change process of China's geographical pattern in time and space from multiple angles, and build a regional geographical cognitive system; Fully express the regional differences of various geographical elements in China, and build a regional geographical logic system; Taking the relationship between man and land as the main line, this paper describes the population, resources, environment and sustainable development in China, and constructs a regional comprehensive analysis capability system.

The readers of this atlas are teachers and students engaged in the teaching and research of "Geography of China" in domestic and foreign universities, teachers and students engaged in geography, resources, environment and other related majors, middle school geography teachers, personnel engaged in regional management, enterprise management and regional scientific research, and readers with high school education or above.

This atlas consists of four parts: sequence map, general geographical map, regional geographical map and appendix.

Sequence diagram has the function of introduction and summary, including the geographical location and administrative division map group of China.

Generally speaking, geographical maps include three groups: physical geography, human geography, resource development and land improvement. Among them, the physical geography map group contains 1 1 units such as natural landscape, landform, geology, climate, hydrology, soil, vegetation, animals, ocean, natural division and natural environment evolution, and is the basic part of geography, which mainly shows the types, intensities and temporal and spatial differentiation laws of various elements of physical geography in China. The atlas of human geography includes seven units: ancient territory, population, urban and rural areas, society, culture and tourism, transportation and modern communication, education and technology, and economic development. It is the fastest updating part of basic geographic data, which mainly shows the types, intensities and temporal and spatial changes of various elements of human/economic geography in China. The map group of resources development and land improvement contains 65,438+00 units, including land resources and development, water resources and development, energy resources and development, biological resources and development, land degradation and ecological construction, natural disasters and mitigation, environmental pollution and control, endemic diseases and environment, biodiversity and nature reserves, and comprehensive geographical division. Taking "man-land relationship" as the main line, it reflects China's natural resources, environmental problems and resource development and utilization.

The geographical map consists of 10 units, including Liaoji Black District, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Lu Yu District, Shanghai-Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Anhui-Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi District, Guangdong-Guangxi-Fujian-Qiong-Hong Kong-Macao-Taiwan District, Inner Mongolia District, Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia District, Sichuan-Chongqing District, Yunnan-Guizhou District, Xinjiang District and Qinghai-Tibet District. The contents of unified mapping in each region include detailed general plan, population and urbanization, resource and environmental structure, economy and transportation, and express regional geography intensively.

The appendix expounds the knowledge of map and geography, introduces the scope of comprehensive survey and special survey of main resources and environment, and explains the distribution of positioning stations related to observation.