BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- China will further advance the opening up of geographic information resources on the premise of ensuring the national geographic information security, the Xinhua-run Shanghai Securities Journal reported on Saturday.
Nowadays, geographical information technology is highly integrated with big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, etc., Wang Guanghua, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said at the 2020 China Geospatial Information Industry Conference which kicked off on last Friday in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
According to Wang, geographical information technology has spawned a string of new services, new products, and new business formats, which profoundly affected people's daily lives and the country's economic and social development.
The Ministry of Natural Resources will vigorously push forward the high-quality development of the geographic information industry and continuously optimize industrial policies and regulations in a bid to constantly open up the country's geographic information resources and lay a solid foundation for the industrial development, Wang noted.
China's geographic information industry achieved a growth of 8.7 percent in 2019, with a total output value of 647 billion yuan, said Sun Yuguo, president of China Association for Geospatial Information Society.
(Edited by Yang Yifan with Xinhua Silk Road, yangyifan@xinhua.org)
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