By organizing and analyzing the geography education papers reprinted in the 2025 Reprinted Periodicals of Secondary School History and Geography Teaching and Learning, it is found that the research hotspots in China's geography education involve the nature and content of the geography curriculum, the characteristics and functions of the new junior high school geography textbook compilation, the logic of geography teaching guided by geographical thought, geography teaching that promotes overall understanding, the development and implementation strategies of geographical practical teaching resources, the empowerment of geography teaching by intelligent technologies, the design and implementation of interdisciplinary geography thematic learning activities, the cultivation of students' scientific thinking and cartographic concepts, the assessment of core competencies in geography, and the professional development of geography teachers. In the future, research should focus on the integrated development of educational and technological talents in geography education, the major changes in the new geography curriculum standards and their teaching directions, the functions and teaching implementation of the complete set of new junior high school geography textbooks, the teaching path of geography thematic content based on geographical thought, and the normative use of generative artifi cial intelligence in geography teaching.