The General Office of the Ministry of Natural Resources ("MNR") has recently issued the Circular on Reinforcing the Monitoring of Operation of the Geomatics Industry (the "Circular").
The Circular expounds on requirements in the following three aspects. The first is improving the working mechanism on the monitoring of operation of the geomatics industry. The MNR's Geomatics Management Department will take charge of the overall planning and coordination of nationwide monitoring of operation of the geomatics industry. The second is establishing the key geomatics enterprise liaison system. Enterprises may be identified as the key liaison enterprises, if they meet any of the following conditions, including "engaging in the provision of geomatics services and the development, manufacturing and sale of geomatics software and hardware, as its principal business, and earning the annual business revenue of over CNY10 million on average in the most recent three years (this threshold may be appropriately lowered for enterprises located in middle and western regions)" and "exploiting geographic data to support its principal business and having gained a certain scale and influence within the industry, although geomatics is not its principal business". The third is perfecting the monitoring system for operation of the geomatics industry, and providing clarification on the monitoring targets, monitoring indicators, how to submit monitoring data, data sharing, etc.