根据1971年全国设计会议精神,公路部门进行了有关规范的修订,原有的公路气候分区已不能适应要求,决定在建国以来的实践经验和科研成果基础上,重新制订符合我国国情的中国公路自然区划。

The Highway Regionalization of China, which has been approved and tentatively adopted by the Ministry of Communication, is the first of its kind in China in the area of applied complex natural regionalization. It aims to bring out the regional differentiation of the natural conditions relevant to highway construction, and to provide engineering parameters and basic information on natural conditions of each region. It is worked out according to the theory of geographical zonation. Both "dominant factor" and "multiple factors" are used in selecting the criteria for iden-tifying regions.