National Economic Atlas of
中华人民共和国国家经济地图集
China · 中国地图出版社 · 1993
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Book Reviews: The National Economic Atlas of China
Gregory Veeck · 1995
This review evaluates The National Economic Atlas of China. Originating from the national atlas project initiated in 1958, the atlas was compiled through the collaboration of over twenty ministries and research institutions. It comprises 265 full-color maps systematically covering resources, population, agriculture, industry, transportation, commerce, science, education, and other economic-geographic topics, presenting more than 500 variables at the county level for the first time. The review praises its integrated data and creative cartographic designs, while noting the absence of per capita income and poverty-related maps, as well as occasional lack of data sources and variable definitions. Overall, the atlas is a comprehensive, beautifully produced reference that significantly advances the study of China's economic geography and raises many questions for future research.
Book Reviews: The National Economic Atlas of China
Clifton W. Pannell; Paul L. Knox · 1995
This article is an academic review by Clifton W. Pannell of The National Economic Atlas of China (Oxford University Press, 1994), compiled by the Institute of Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions. As the latest volume in the National Atlas Series, the atlas was published bilingually and systematically depicts the spatial patterns of China’s reforming economy in the late 1980s. The review outlines the atlas’s compilation background, data sources, cartographic techniques, and structural coverage, noting its treatment of resources, agriculture, industry, transportation, commerce, urban construction, and education. Using GIS and computer-assisted mapping, the project processed about 100 million bytes of data. The author highly commends the atlas as an unprecedented spatial portrayal of China’s transitional economy and regards it as a standard reference for studying China’s economic geography. Meanwhile, he points out some flaws, such as inconsistent areal mapping units in sparsely populated western China, overly complex multivariate maps, and occasional registration or color anomalies, but overall affirms the atlas’s scholarly quality and craftsmanship.
Classic Milestone: National Atlas
Unknown · 2014
The national atlas is an important symbol of a country's scientific, technological and cultural level. In the mid-1950s, China included the compilation of a national atlas in its national scientific development plan, and in 1958 established an editorial committee headed by Zhu Kezhen. The project was interrupted by the Cultural Revolution but resumed in 1981 with the approval of the State Council. The atlas was planned in five volumes: general, physical, economic, agricultural and historical. The compilation involved 216 institutions and more than 1,700 experts and scholars, and the volumes were published successively from 1990 to 1999, with Chinese-English bilingual editions and electronic versions. The national atlas systematically summarizes information on China's nature, population, economy, society and history, providing authoritative references for macro decision-making, scientific research and education. It received multiple national awards and high praise from the international cartographic community. The project also promoted the compilation of provincial atlases and cultivated a large number of cartographic talents, making it a milestone in the development of modern Chinese cartography.
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