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man">///A new way of thinking is opened up by the generation of the continental dynamic theory and its application to the study of tectonics of Chinese mainland. The Precambrian basement and the South China-Indo-China stratigraphic framework are regarded as the essential factors in the outlining and subdivision of the tectonic framework of Chinese mainland. Nevertheless, it is also necessary to carry out studies of important intracontinental deformation structures such as large scale strike-slip faulting, nappe structures and extrusion tectonics as well as their influence on the tectonic framework formed during and before the Indo-China stage. This paper deals with some of the basic controversies concerning the tectonic framework of China and its adjacent areas, with an investigation of the tectonic evolution of Chinese mainland in such aspects as the properties and ascription of Alxa and northern Qiangtang blocks, the confirmation of the existence of Western China plate, the tectonic subdivision of the North Asian tectonic domain in China, the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous intracontinental deformation and Central Asia extrusion tectonics, the subdivision of Sino-Korean plate and Yangtze-South China plate and the ascription of the southern North Yellow sea and Korean peninsula. The authors hold that there exists no long distance thrust nappe in northeastern mas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Hunan and southeastern Hubei.
