本文回顾并且评述了过去80年《地理学报》的载文历史,发现它刻画了中国地理学经历了4个发展阶段,即：1934-1948年的艰难探索的近现代地理学的形成阶段,1949-1966年的地理学发展中的科学化和应用化兴起阶段,1978-2000年的地理学繁荣的百花齐放阶段,2000年后的地理学自主创新突出的大发展阶段。《地理学报》当前的载文反映,中国地理学日益国际化,今后的发展是不仅需要融入世界地理学的发展,而且应该成为具有中国文化引导国际地理学发展的期刊。

This paper reviews and comments the evolutionary history of Acta Geographica Sinica by papers over the past 80 years. In the article, we find that Chinese geography has experienced four stages of development: the period 1934-1948, the rise from exploration of modern geography in a hard time; the period 1949-1966, Chinese geography underwent a scientific and systematic process; from 1978 to 2000, Chinese geography put itself into the flourishing stage by closely serving the national economic development needs; since 2000, China has focused on geographical innovation, and tends to be increasingly international. By analyzing the current papers in Acta Geographica Sinica, we believe that the future Chinese geographical science should be not only integrated into the development of world geography, but also have a profound influence on Chinese culture and become one of the international geographical pioneers.