【People's Education Press】High School Geography Compulsory Course Part Two

This textbook is a core component of the compulsory high school geography curriculum, delving deeply into population distribution and migration, the evolution of rural and urban areas, industrial location choices, transportation layout and its impact on regional development, culminating in a focus on environmental issues and sustainable development. The course aims to cultivate students’ human-land coordination perspective and comprehensive thinking through case analysis and practical activities.

Explore human-land relationships, appreciate geographical wisdom, and jointly design a blueprint for sustainable development.

Author: Fan Jie, Gao Junchang

Acknowledgments: Approved by the National Textbook Committee Expert Review Board (2019)

1. Analyze and Summarize: Be able to use maps and materials to summarize patterns of global and national population distribution.
2. Synthesize and Explain: Be able to explain the causes of population distribution and migration from multiple dimensions—natural (topography, climate, water resources, etc.) and human (economy, history, politics, etc.).
3. Evaluate Critically: Understand the distinction between regional carrying capacity and reasonable population size, and apply the "limiting factor effect" to analyze resource constraints in real regions.
4. Recognize and Understand: Be able to identify the distribution characteristics of major urban functional zones, explain economic factors influencing internal urban spatial structure, and describe the stage-specific features of urbanization.
5. Analyze and Apply: Be able to use the S-curve model to analyze differences in urbanization across countries and regions, and design basic logical workflows for geographic information technology applications in urban management (e.g., 110 emergency response).
6. Integrate and Evaluate: Be able to provide examples illustrating how regional culture influences rural and urban landscapes, and evaluate the significance of rational use of urban-rural space and protection of regional cultural landscapes.
7. Identify and Analyze: Be able to use charts to identify key locational factors affecting agriculture, industry, and services.
8. Principle Analysis: Understand the changing patterns of industrial locational factors, particularly the economic logic behind corporate headquarters relocation.
9. Trend Assessment: Evaluate the empowering role of geographic information technology in modern services, and analyze the necessity of physical businesses’ transformation and upgrading in the internet era.
10. Be able to summarize and explain general principles of regional transportation layout, and illustrate the necessity of "appropriate foresight" using cases such as Beijing Capital International Airport.