1、To formulate laws, regulations and rules of surveying and mapping, formulate development plans for the surveying and mapping undertaking, formulate plan for national surveying and mapping in conjunction with relevant departments, formulate management policies and technical standards for the surveying and mapping industry and supervise their implementation.

2. To organize and manage basic surveying and mapping, international and administrative boundary surveying and mapping, cadastral surveying and mapping, and other national level or key surveying and mapping projects, and to establish and manage national surveying and mapping data and control systems.

3. To formulate cadastral surveying and mapping plans, technical standards and specifications, and ratify cadastre surveying and mapping results.

4. To take charge of regulating surveying and mapping market order, to manage surveying and mapping qualifications, to supervise quality control of surveying and mapping results and other surveying and mapping activities like geographic information data capture and application, to organize and coordinate supervision of geographic information security, to examine and approve the external provision of surveying and mapping results and surveying and mapping activities conducted in China by foreign organizations and individuals, and to investigate and punish nationwide or grave law-breaking cases in surveying and mapping.

5. To take charge of rendering surveying and mapping services for the public and emergency management, to organize and guide social services of fundamental geographic information, to examine and approve key geographic information and data and to publish them upon authorization.

6. To manage national basic surveying and mapping results, to guide and supervise the management of surveying and mapping results of various kinds and the protection of surveying and mapping markers nationwide, and to formulate system for and supervise the implementation of summarizing and submitting surveying and mapping results.

7. To take charge of management of maps, to supervise and manage maps market, to manage map compilation, to examine maps to be published, to manage and approve the denotation of geographic name, and to formulate, in conjunction with relevant departments, sample maps of international boundary on the map of People’s Republic of China

8. To take charge of surveying and mapping technical innovation, to guide basic research of surveying and mapping, key surveying and mapping programs, to promote the popularization of surveying and mapping technology and the commercialization of its research findings

9. To undertake other tasks designated by the State Council and the Ministry of Land and Resources.