SinoMaps Press is a public institution under the direct jurisdiction of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. Being the only national map publisher, the Press boasts the most diversified, the largest market share and the widest distribution of publication in China. In 1997, approved by the authority concerned, SinoMaps Press and Surveying & Mapping Press merged into one publishing house-the present SinoMaps Press. Since its founding in 1954, SinoMaps Press has always been persisting in the correct publishing guideline to provide authoritative, up-to-date and high quality map products for the economic construction, education, national defense, foreign affairs and people's daily life.
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