A Study On The Government Management Functions In Mapping Industry-citing Anshan City As An Example

Mapping or topography provides plenty of preliminary, fundamental,professional and comprehensive geography-or position-relevant information for thenational economy and society, therefore is the basis for any micro as well as macro-studies or decisions. In the international community, mapping is playing a more andmore important role in a wide range of fields. Especially with the development ofspaceflight and microelectronics, traditional analog mapping techniques and datahave been gradually changed to digital ones, which are more easily to be compatiblewith economic or social figures. Due to the supporting functions played by thosemapping information, geography information management and service quality havebecome a challenge for relevant government sections.Numeralization natural phenomena and making the descriptions accurate anddynamic are the 2 modern development tendencies. Not only mapping is anindispensable technique to collect those numeric data, but the process is also acontinual one. In today's commercialized world, mapping results are alsocommodities in the market as well as the mapping science and technology.Currently, our country is undergoing an economic reform and developing thesocialism market economy. After decades of recovery, in the socialism market,mapping enterprises have to transform from solely depending on government fundsand only in charge of research work, to surviving on their own products and services.This is really an important opportunity for mapping industry's development. As thesocial demand for mapping information is getting bigger and bigger, an industrializedproduction model has been established for mapping. Along with the scientific andtechnological development, mapping industry is about to enter a brand-new phase ofdevelopment, which features with all kinds of digital mapping techniques and data. Inthe near future, mapping industry still has great forward momentums and willdefinitely bring us endless development and change.For better promoting the development of mapping industry, there is the necessityto study the mapping industry's development model and government managementmode. This paper first reviewed the mapping industry's development process inAnShan city;further studies the its development and government managementmodels;discussed the problems concerned;wished to help reconsider the presentgovernment management practices in promoting the development of the mappingindustry.