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Targeting on the frontiers of geography, to promote the development of Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions and Henan Province and to help the construction of Central Plains Economic Zone, Central Henan Urban Agglomeration and Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone, 5 research orientations of human geography, economic geography, Geographic Information System, environmental geography and ecological geography are developed. More than 70 national scientific research projects were granted,48 research rewards of provincial, ministerial and national level were awarded (including the first-place prize of Henan Province Science and Technology Progress of “the Research and Application of Key Technologies of Earth System Science Data Sharing project” in 2013)and more than 180 articles in SCI, SSCI, EI and other Chinese top journals were published in recent years. CEP has been ranked the eighth in ActaGeographicaSinica80 years’ publication number and the seventh in Geographical Research32 years’ publication number among all the Chinese universities and institutes.