Through the analysis of papers published in Teaching Reference of Middle School Geography,the only Chinese-language core journals for secondary geography education,the level of geography teaching and research has been finally divided into six level regions according to the measured values of levels of geography teaching and research in provinces and regions of China.It has been found that the regional difference in value of national geography teaching and research exceeded the warning line,which mainly comes from difference among the provinces and autonomous regions in the eastern zone and difference among three zones; difference among the provinces and autonomous regions in the middle zone are comparatively small,as well as that in the west zone.It has been revealed by mechanism analysis that difference of geography teaching and research is mainly attributed to difference in the level of financial input for education.However,a variety of factors such as the efforts of geography teaching and research have also caused the relative effectiveness to reflect complexity.Accordingly,some measures for the improvement and balanced development of geography teaching and research in secondary schools have been proposed.