An initial approach to the construction of methodology in regional economic geography
区域经济地理学方法论建设初探

The integration of worldwide and nationwide economic regions requires sophisticated and integrated methods in Regional Economic Geography (REG) study. The progress of scientific thinking, especially the modern mathematical and systematical thinking, the technical advancement of information collection, transmission, processing and application, make the possibility of methodology construction of REG into reality. Several principles are required to maintain the harmonization among methodology construction, theory development and practice progress. The scientific thinking methods and the technical methods should be connected closely with each other, and both of them should be applied into the concrete aspects of the subject. The detailed methods should be selected, arranged and organized rationally into the flexible system to tackle different problems encountered during REG study. As a result, the subject study method system and the factors involved are outlined to illustrate the mechanism of methodology construction in REG.