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New atlas of administrative divisions published

www.chinaview.cn 2006-01-06 22:58:46


    BEIJING, Jan. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- China launched a new atlas of
administrative divisions here Friday to make public the results of its
recent survey and demarcation of nearly 480,000 km inter-province or
inter-county borderlines.

    "Regional borderline uncertainties had long existed in China,
resulting in many regional disputes. In previous Chinese atlas, 70 to 80
percent of the borderlines were marked in broken lines as an expedient
to blur the border controversy," said Dai Junliang, director of the
Department of Administrative Divisions under the Ministry of Civil
Affairs (MCA), at Friday's press conference.

    In the new atlas, more than 6,300 borderlines between provinces and
counties are marked with accuracy and legal augustness, which provides
authoritative reference for resolving any border disputes within Chinese
territory, said Dai.

    The 29.7-by-42 cm atlas include China's 34 provincial units, 333
prefectures, 2,862 counties and about 40,000 townships' boundaries and
related information.

    The atlas was compiled with sophisticated computer cartography and
two-year labor-intensive field work. It is jointly published by the MCA,
the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and China Cartographic
Publishing House. Enditem

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