After a brief account on the present state of researches on terrane tectonics, the author demonstrates in accordance with the definition of terrane that the Jiaonan Uplift is an allochthonous terrane with its northern boundary fault being the Wulian--Rongcheng Fracture. The author puts forth his own ideas on the geophysical characteristics of the fracture and suggests that the Wulian--Rongcheng Fracture be probably a demarcation fault which cuts through the crust and reaches the upper mantle, and that the s...