The Changes of Geography in the Era of Upheaval

  Presenter: Professor Changqing Song, Beijing Normal University

Reporting time: November 25,2020,9:00-12:00

Reporting place:Second floor report Hall

Institute of Environment and Planning

Organizer:Institute of Environment and Planning

Inviter: President Chunpeng Song, Academician Jiayao Wang

Moderator: Academician Jiayao Wang

Brief introduction:Changqing Song, Professor, Department of Geography, Beijing normal University. As Executive Minister of Geography Science Department of Beijing Normal University, Vice Chairman of China Geography Society, Director of Academic Work Committee of China Geography Society, Director of Political Geography and Geographical Relations Professional Committee, Executive Director of sporopollen Society, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Society, Soil Society, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Geography, Geography of Arid Zones, Chinese Geographical Science (Geography of China), Vice Director of Geoscience Department of National Natural Science Foundation Committee, Vice Chairman of China Geography Society, Member of China Science and Technology Association.

Summary of views: The present era is a new era, an era of intelligence, change and data, but also an era of unprecedented complexity. Geography is a basic discipline to study the distribution pattern, change process and formation mechanism of terrestrial surface nature, human elements and regional system, but technological progress has changed the nature of geographical region, and the geographical region of geographical science should have a new understanding. At the same time, the new technology also provides the conditions for geographical change, such as fast mobile network, wide area physical network, high performance cloud computing machine and panoramic artificial intelligence. Song Changqing also believes that in today's era, new technology creates new data and new data gives birth to new methods. The innovation of geography is mainly reflected in the analysis of data.

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