Abstract:
Historically, the “Nature's Storehouse” referred to the fittest locality for human life. The ancient Chinese people usually regarded a locality with hazardous terrace, fertile land and abundant produce as the “Nature's Storehouse”. Thus, there were 9 localities respectively named “Nature's Storehouses” in Chinese history, namely, the Guanzhong Basin, the Beijing Valley, the Chengdu Plains, the areas in southern China, the areas adjacent to Taiyuan, the Central Fujian, the areas adjacent to Shenyang, the Wuwei region and the Eastern Taiwan. Owing to respective distinctions in geographical and humanistic environment, some of these “Nature's Storehouses” have endured history and remain influential, but others lasted only momentarily and faded soon. Thus, the shaping and evolution of these historical “Nature's Storehouses” are of important referential significance to current economic construction of our country.
