Surveying and Mapping Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised in 2002)
Surveying and Mapping Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised in 2002)
Surveying and Mapping Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised in 2002)
Order of the President [2002] No. 75
August 29, 2002
The Surveying and Mapping Law of the People's Republic of China, which was revised and adopted at the 29th session of the Standing Committee of the 7th National People's Congress on December 28, 1992, is released hereby and shall take effect as of December 1, 2002.
President of the People's Republic of China Jiang Zemin
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Surveying and Mapping Datums and Systems
Chapter III Basic Surveying and Mapping
Chapter IV Boundary Surveying and Mapping and Other Surveying and Mapping
Chapter V Qualifications for Surveying and Mapping
Chapter VI Surveying and Mapping Results
Chapter VII Protection of Surveying Markers
Chapter VIII Legal Liabilities
Chapter IX Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted to strengthen the administration of the surveying and mapping undertaking, promote its development and ensure that it renders service to development of the national economy, the building up of national defence, and progress of the society.
Article 2 All surveying and mapping activities in the territorial air, land and waters of the People's Republic of China, as well as other sea areas under its jurisdiction shall be conducted in compliance with this Law.
For purpose of this Law, surveying and mapping include the activities conducted to determine, collect and formulate the key elements of physical geography or the shapes, sizes, space positions, attributes, etc. of man-made surface installations, as well as to process and provide the data, information and results gained therefrom.
Article 3 The undertaking of surveying and mapping is a basic undertaking for development of the national economy, building up of national defence, and progress of the society. People's governments at all levels shall strengthen leadership of work in this field.
Article 4 The administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council shall be in charge of the unified supervision over the work of surveying and mapping throughout the country. The relevant departments under the State Council shall, in line with the division of their functions and duties specified by the State Council, be responsible for the work of surveying and mapping which they are concerned with.
The administrative departments in charge of surveying and mapping under the local people's governments at or above the county level (hereinafter referred to as the departments for surveying and mapping, in short) shall be responsible for the unified supervision over the work of surveying and mapping within their own administrative areas. The relevant departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in line with the division of their functions and duties specified by the people's governments at the corresponding level, be responsible for the work of surveying and mapping which they are concerned with.
The competent department for surveying and mapping of the army shall be responsible for work of the administration of surveying and mapping done by military departments and shall, in line with the division of its functions and duties specified by the State Council and the Central Military Commission, be responsible for administration of the basic marine surveying and charting.
Article 5 In surveying and mapping, the datums and systems prescribed by the State for surveying and mapping shall be employed, and the technical norms and standards prescribed by the State for surveying and mapping shall be applied.
Article 6 The State encourages scientific and technological updating and progress in surveying and mapping and adoption of advanced technology and equipment so as to raise the surveying and mapping level.
Units and individuals that make important contributions to scientific and technological progress in surveying and mapping shall be rewarded in accordance with the relevant regulations of the State.
Article 7 Foreign organizations or individuals that wish to conduct surveying and mapping in the territorial air, land or waters, as well as other sea areas under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China shall be subject to approval by the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council and the competent department for surveying and mapping of the army, and they shall observe the provisions of relevant laws and administrative rules and regulations of the People's Republic of China.
Foreign organizations or individuals that wish to conduct surveying and mapping in the territorial air, land or waters of the People's Republic of China shall, as required by law, join hands with the relevant departments or units of the People's Republic of China in the form of Chinese-foreign equity joint venture or Chinese-foreign contractual joint venture and such surveying and mapping may not involve State secrets or endanger State security.
Chapter II Surveying and Mapping Datums and Systems
Article 8 The State establishes and adopts the nationwide unified geodetic datums, vertical datums, depth datums and gravimetric datums, and the data in this respect shall be examined and verified by the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council, which, after consulting with the relevant departments under the State Council and the competent department for surveying and mapping of the army, shall submit the data to the State Council for approval.
Article 9 The State establishes a nationwide unified geodetic coordinate system, plane coordinate system, vertical system, geocentric coordinate system and gravimetric system, and defines the classification of orders and classes and precision of the national geodetic survey, as well as the national basic scale map series and their basic precision. Specific norms and requirements shall be formulated by the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council in conjunction with the relevant departments under the State Council and the competent department for surveying and mapping of the army.
Where it is really necessary to adopt the international coordinate system and this does not endanger State security, the matter shall be subject to approval by the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council and the competent department of survey and mapping of the army.
Article 10 Where it is really necessary to establish relatively independent plane coordinate systems for major construction projects of large cities and the State to meet the needs of construction, urban planning and scientific research, the matter shall be subject to approval by the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council; and where it is really necessary to establish relatively independent plane coordinate systems for other purposes, the matter shall be subject to approval by the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the people's government of a province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government.
The relatively independent plane coordinate systems to be established shall be connected with the national coordinate system.
Chapter III Basic Surveying and Mapping
Article 11 Basic surveying and mapping is a public welfare undertaking. The State exercises administration over basic surveying and mapping at different levels.
For purpose of this Law, basic surveying and mapping include establishing of the nationwide unified surveying and mapping datums and systems, taking of basic aerial photographs, obtaining of the remote sensing data of basic geographic information, surveying, producing and renewing of the national basic scale map series, photomaps and digital products and establishing and renewing of the basic geographic information system.
Article 12 The administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council shall, in conjunction with the relevant departments under the State Council and the competent department for surveying and mapping of the army, take charge of drawing up national plans for basic surveying and mapping, and shall submit the plans to the State Council for approval before making arrangements for their implementation.
The administrative departments for surveying and mapping under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in conjunction with the relevant departments of the people's governments at the corresponding level, take charge of drawing up the plans for basic surveying and mapping of their own administrative areas on the basis of the basic surveying and mapping plans of the State and of the people's government at the next higher level and in light of the actual conditions of their own administrative areas, submit the plans to the people's governments at the same level for approval and make arrangements for their implementation after submitting them to the administrative departments for surveying and mapping at the next higher level for the record.
Article 13 The competent department for surveying and mapping of the army shall be responsible for working out plans for military surveying and mapping and, in line with the division of functions and duties specified by the State Council and the Central Military Commission, take charge of drawing up plans for basic marine surveying and charting, and make arrangements for their implementation.
Article 14 People's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate basic surveying and mapping into their annual plans for national economic and social development and their financial budgets at the same level.
The administrative department for development and planning under the State Council shall, in conjunction with the administrative department for surveying and mapping under the State Council and on the basis of the national basic surveying and mapping plan, draw up annual plans for national basic surveying and mapping.
The administrative departments for development and planning under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in conjunction with the administrative departments for surveying and mapping at the corresponding level, draw up annual plans for basic surveying and mapping of their own administrative areas on the basis of the basic surveying and mapping plans for their own administrative areas, and submit their annual plans respectively to the competent departments at the next higher level for the record.
The State gives financial assistance to the outlying districts and minority nationality areas in basic surveying and mapping.
Article 15 The results of basic surveying and mapping shall be regularly renewed.
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