According to "Beijing News" reported that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Beijing aimed at a middle school geography textbooks used in the "Shaanxi, Gansu classified in North China", the national mapping agency, recently said that for how natural, economic, and administrative China's regions in terms of a more rational division of the question, the National Survey and Mapping Bureau in conjunction with related departments and organize the relevant experts to study.

According to media reports earlier this year, the eve of Teacher's Day, Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing 35 secondary schools and lectures, and during that school geography textbooks used in the problem - the division of China's regions is not clear, the Shaanxi, Gansu assigned to northern China. When this situation was triggered heated debate after the media reported.

Wen Jiabao after lectures geography class to make the following Comments: "North sudden I hears talk confused, because the textbooks say neither is a natural dividing line, but not the economic area, nor is it political subdivisions, how the North Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia to include it? textbooks on the basis of China's lack of zoning, whether natural, economic or historical evolution of the division failed to make it clear, some are wrong. "

Subsequently, the above-mentioned textbook publisher - China Map Publishing House issued a statement on its Web site, said the media reports were not true, adding that the concept of physical geography in the "North China", including Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and part of, and generally considered The original administrative or economic concept of "North China" (including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, five provincial-level administrative region) are two different concepts.

It is understood that the current junior high school geography textbooks widely used in China China's Physical Geography geographical area program presentation, the country is divided into north, south and northwest China, the Qinghai-Tibet region Region 4. Within the region, including the northern North China and Northeast region, two sub-regions.