关键词: 贡献, 黄秉维, 现代地理学

Abstract: Professor Huang Bingwei, the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Honorary Director of the Institute Geography, CAS, and the Honorary President of the Geographical Sociaty of China, is an outstanding geographer, whose contributions to geography have gained national and international recognition. In accordance with the features and laws of the discipline, has paid close attention to international trend and direction of the geographical study, advocated interdisciplinary research across the natural and social sciences, emphasized integrated studies, energetically introduced new ideas, new technologies and new methods, attached importance to the combination of theory with practice, thought highly of bringing geography to serve economic construction, especially agriculture, and made notable contributions to the development of contemporary geography and international cooperation as well as improvement of research level of geographical science in China. The integrated studies in geography carried out by Prof.Huang are dealt with in this paper.

Key words: contemporary geography, contribution, Huang Bingwei