The main activity of the 2022 Surveying and Mapping Law Publicity Day and National Territory Awareness Publicity Week was held in Beijing today. The theme of this year's activity week is "Standardize the use of maps, there is nothing wrong with it".

National territory is a territory in which a country exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction, and it is a symbol of national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Map is the most important manifestation of national territory, reflecting the scope of national sovereignty, with serious politics, strict science and strict legitimacy.

The 2022 edition of standard maps and reference maps were released at the event site, totaling 646. Among them, there are 20 standard maps, including 6 Chinese maps of China, 4 English maps of China/kloc-0 and 626 reference maps. Reference maps are provided by local natural resources authorities and incorporated into the standard map service system according to the systematic, practical and current characteristics of map content. Users can browse and download standard maps for free through the standard map service system of official website of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Sky Map, the national geographic information public service platform, and make personalized maps online by themselves.

Up to now, the standard map service system of the Ministry of Natural Resources can provide 359 standard maps, 4 sets of self-help maps and 803 reference maps. All provinces and autonomous regions have opened standard map services, providing a total of 9,860 standard maps, and providing a total of 1 1022 standard maps and reference maps nationwide.

The launching ceremony of the national territory knowledge contest was also held at the event site. The National Land Knowledge Competition has been successfully held for four times since 20 12. The contest will popularize knowledge such as maps, geography and natural resources through rich and participatory answers, and stimulate young people's love for the motherland.

In recent years, the Ministry of Natural Resources has continuously organized the "three advances" of national territory awareness (into schools, communities and media), and carried out publicity and education activities on national territory awareness for nearly 10,000 times, which significantly improved the national territory awareness of the whole people.