作者围绕14届国际土壤科学大会,介绍了国际土壤分类、土壤调查制图、世界土壤和土地数字化数据库、东亚土壤地理和土壤全球变化等方面研究的最新进展,指出我国应把土壤地理研究置于全球变化的总目标下,加强中国土壤系统分类的研究,开展1∶100万土壤—土地数字化数据库的工作、建立土壤地理信息系统以及防治土壤退化保证农业的持续发展。

Centered on the 14th Soil Congress(ISSS), the author interprets the newest progresses made in aspects of international soil classification, soil survey and mapping,  soil and terrain digital database, soil geography of East Asia and global soil changes, and based on them indicates that internal research work which will be placed under the final consideration of global soil changes should be enhanced on Chinese Soil Taxonomic Classification, soil and land digital database at scale of 1:1 million and soil geographic information system, so as to keep soils from degradation and to have our agriculture develop sustainable.