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Corresponding author: The report is a summing-up on the new trends, new characteristics, and new frame-work emerged in the regional development in China in the recent years, a drawing up of the indicators system of appraisal on regional scienceoriented development in accordance with the requirements of the scienceoriented development philosophy, an application of the indicators system in the appraisal respectively on the science-oriented development situations of the 4 regional agglomerations (or regional economic complexes) and the 31 provinces, metropolitan areas, and national autonomous regions, and an examination on the relationships of all sorts of indexes by using the sectional data of the just mentioned 31 units.