The characteristics of plate evolution and movement in China and adjacent areas since Phanerozoic have been studied by using GIS

with a focus on analyzing the matching process of multiple landmasses and the alternating process of the two types of plate movement since Meso-Cenozoic. The fossil continental plate in China was not a simple plate that had been developed from a single ancient Earth core

but a combination plate that resulted from the matching of several ancient Earth cores or multiple landmasses. The evolution of the fossil continental plate in China had been carried out under the general framework of global plate movement

thus it had been controlled by the global plate movement. Plate movement since Meso-Cenozoic can be divided into two types:one was dominated by opening and closing (drifting)

and another was dominated by elevation and subsidence (splitting/bonding). These two types of plate movement occurred alternatively and constituted

in combination with mantle convection

the whole evolution history of the plate.