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| REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON SERVICES GEOGRAPHY |
| LIU Kun, SHEN Yu-ming |
| College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China |
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Abstract Services geography research began in the early 1970s when western countries developed into the period of industrial society,in the research process gradually formed the related theory and research issues. Services geography is an important branch of economic geography. From the viewpoint of the subject system,services geography is an inter-disciplinary of geography,economy,sociology and other subjects. But the object of the study must base on certain surface space to show its design features of "comprehensiveness" and "territoriality". Although services economy theory and services geography theory is relatively mature,the two theories is not organic united. As a result,the basic theory and research framework of services geography is not clear. In this context,exploration of the theory and methodology and innovation to promote development in services geography,implement research focus and breakthrough research difficulties is crucial. Because of this,this thesis studies related documents about services geography,home and abroad,in detail,to get a clear and general ideal of the research context and development in services geography and to provide reference to the further study in future. By combing the document,the thesis supports the idea that:the existing research focuses on the empirical research and the data mainly is statistical data. At present,statistical system in China still needs to be greatly improved and consummating the theory of data statistics system is one of the urgent tasks of depending services geography's development and study. With the development of regional economy and the upgrading of industrial structure,the influence of the information technology is becoming increasingly conspicuous. In research content,it should be deeply strengthened the study of the services industries and regional economic sustainable development,the service industry location choice under the influence of IT technology,micro-location of services,the impact of trade in services on the spatial organization of the regional industrial structure and industrial,services territorial complex and rural service.
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Received: 12 January 2012
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2013, Vol. 28 
