The ultimate objective of fundamental research in the earth sciences is to reconstruct the geological history of the entire Earth. Essentially this implies that we want to know how Earth’s palaeogeography developed through time. Consequently, palaeogeography should be considered as one of the most fundamental disciplines of the Earth sciences. Because a palaeogeographical analysis requires a deep insight into all the geological processes that affected a specific study area in the course of geological time, palaeogeography is, however, also one of the most complicated earth-science disciplines. No wonder that so few journals take this subject as their main point of focus. We consider it therefore of great importance that China, with its large areal extent that comprises so many geologically completely different areas, now has established an international journal dealing with this topic. The editors of Geologos congratulate the editorial team of the Journal of Palaeogeography with their initiative, and wish that the journal will contribute to the exchange of significant palaeo-geographical information between China and the rest of the world.