中国将采用新测绘法
China's top legislature Thursday passed a revised surveying and mapping law, protecting geographic information security and raising public awareness of national territory.
中国人大常委会周四通过一份测绘学修改法案，保护了地理信息安全并提高了公众的国家领土意识。
The legislation was adopted after a second reading at the bimonthly session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
Revisions deal with the use of safe, reliable technology and equipment, managing navigation and positioning reference stations and supervision of Internet mapping services.
The law will help protect the security of important national geographic information and boost the sound development of geographic information industry, said Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, at the closing meeting.
Raising awareness of national territory should be included in the curricula for primary and middle schools as it is an important part of patriotic education, according to the law.
In order to enable everyone to use maps that represent China's territory correctly, the law states that regulations should be followed in formulating, publishing or exhibiting maps.
"The omission of sensitive information in maps breaks the integrity of national territory and harms national security and interests to some extent," legislator Yue Zhongming told reporters at a press conference Thursday.
The law stipulates that Internet map providers should use maps that are legally authorized and protect the integrity of mapping data.