China National Digital Geological Map (Public Version at 1:200 000 Scale) Spatial Database

As the only one of its kind, China National Digital Geological Map (Public Version at 1:200000 scale) Spatial Database (CNDGM-PVSD) is based on China's former nationwide measured results of regional geological survey at 1:200 000 scale, and is also one of the nationwide basic geosciences spatial databases jointly accomplished by multiple organizations of China. Spatially, it embraces 1163 geological map-sheets (at scale 1:200 000) in both formats of MapGIS and ArcGIS, covering 72% of China's whole territory with a total data volume of 90 GB. Its main sources is from 1:200 000 regional geological survey reports, geological maps, and mineral resources maps with an original time span from mid-1950s to early 1990s. Approved by the State's related agencies, it meets all the related technical qualification requirements and standards issued by China Geological Survey in data integrity, logic consistency, location accuracy, attribution fineness, and collation precision, and is hence of excellent and reliable quality. The CNDGM-PVSD is an important component of China's national spatial database categories, serving as a spatial digital platform for the information construction of the State's national economy, and providing information backbones to the national and provincial economic planning, geohazard monitoring, geological survey, mineral resources exploration as well as macro decision-making.