Regional Development is a Major Socio-Economic Issue in the Contemporary World -- Progress of Foreign Research on Regional Development -- Progress of Research on Regional Exploitation and Regional Development in China -- Industrial Structure and Regional Development -- Resources, Environment and Regional Development -- Spatial Structure and Regional Development -- Location Differential Rent and Spatial Structure of Urban Land Utilization -- Point-axis Progressive Diffusion and Point-axis Spatial Structure System -- Technological Innovation and Spatial Structure.

This book describes the progress and prominent theories of regional development research in the past decades, especially in the past decade, discusses the industrial structure, spatial structure, resources, and environment, as well as a series of practical issues, and reveals the general characteristics of spatial structure evolution in the process of regional development. The research on the issues of regional development has become the frontier of relevant disciplines since the 1950s, and much progress has been made in the process of solving practical problems in social and economic development. This book provides an in-depth and systematic demonstration of the "point-axis system" theory of regional exploitation and development as well as the T-shaped structure of China's regional economic action in theory and practice and discusses the impact of location differential rent, restricted accessibility, technological innovation, etc., on regional development theoretically. This book is used as a reference for planning, scientific research, and teaching personnel in territorial expansion, regional economy, human geography, etc.