<正>ONSOUTHERNSTRETCHOPTHES-NTECTONICBELT,CHINAChenGuanghaoandWeiZhoulin(ChangshaInstituteofGeotectonic,AcademiaSinica,Changsha,410013,Hunan,China)S-Ntectonicbelt,southstretching,boundingbeltItcanbeinferredfromthegeophysicaldata,linearstructures,tectonicevolu-tionhistoryandmetallogenythattheS-NtectonicBeltstretchesfurthersouthinadifferentdi-rectionandmannerafterinterceptedbytheRedRiverFault,Thestretchingsegmentistheim-portanttectonicboundaryinIndo-AsiaandassiminlatestheS-Ntectonicbeltwithsomediffer-ences.