“地理学报”过去的编辑工作存在着严重的缺点。解放三年多以来，本刊一共出了三卷共四本，除开批评检讨性文字外，共刊登论文18篇（其中一半是解放前遗留的作品），不仅在数量上显得贫乏，不足以反映新中国地理工作开展的实际情况；而且在内容上还犯了许多错误，其中在政治思想上错误显著，已经群众公开指摘批评的就达四分之一；更其严重的是本刊从没有宣传介绍过苏联先进地理学的 There have been serious shortcomings in the past editorial work of the Geographical Journal. Since the liberation for more than three years, we have published a total of three volumes out of four in total. Apart from criticizing the review texts, we have 18 essays published (half of which are works left over before the liberation) that are not only poor in quantity but not enough to reflect The actual situation of the new China’s geography work carried out; but also made a lot of mistakes in the content, of which the political and ideological errors significantly, has been openly criticized by the public up to a quarter; more serious is not published in this magazine Introduced advanced Soviet geography