21世纪中国的地理科学要发展,应当一端承接知识经济的高技术和高智力优势,一端紧密联系市场,增强在市场经济条件下为社会服务的功能。为此,创建地理策划学大有必要,它能更有效地将知识经济优势与市场需求连接起来,将地理学智力更有效地转化为生产力。本文首次探讨了地理策划学的内涵和地理策划的基本程序及应用领域。

To develop in the 21st century,China's geography should take advantage of high technology and high intelligence brought by knowledge economy on one hand, and integrate closely the market to enhance its functions to serve the society under market economy on the other hand. Therefore, it is greatly necessary to create geographic scheming discipline, which can connect the advantages of knowledge aconomy more effectively with market demand and transfer geographical intelligence into productivity. This paper probes into the connotation of geographic scheming discipline and the basic procedure and applied fields of geographic scheming.