区域经济发展空间研究进展

空间是地理学最基本的概念，空间学派已成为现代地理学四大学派之一。西方国家区域经济空间研究历史早，理论体系相对完善，通过对西方发达国家区域空间研究历史脉络的梳理，把西方区域经济发展空间研究分为起步阶段、发展阶段、提高阶段。并对我国区域空间研究的主要内容进行了总结分析，认为我国区域空间研究主要集中在实证分析中，区域空间理论与方法研究落后于西方发达国家。最后，作者对区域空间结构特征和现状研究不足进行了总体评述。

Progress of Spatial Research on Regional Economic Development

Space, as one basic concept in geography, is an important resource and existent form of substance. The regional spatial economy study has become one of four schools in modern geography. The paper reviewed the development of theories and methods in this field. The studies of regional spatial economy in western countries has developed maturely, which can be divided into three stages, that is, the beginning, the developing, and the advancing period; while the theories development of spatial theory studies in China drops behind in western countries and does not constitute a set of relative theories with Chinese characteristics, mainly focusing on their application in planning practices. Finally, the paper summarized the characteristics and shortages of regional spatial economy research in China. The author considers that it is necessary to integrate the advantages of geography,economics,statistics and sociology to study spatial structure. In particular,using system theory to cognize,diagnose,simulate and forecast spatial structure should be one of primary consents in the future research.