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THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE CHART IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND THE PROSPECTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Li Shujun Hydrography and Mapping Department, Dalian Naval Academy, Dalian, CHINA ,116018 E-mail : gh78088@Online. ln.cn Abstract Chinese charts have developed rapidly in the 20th century. Four generation of nautical charts ,including a large amount of thematic charts and atlas have been compiled and published. Four developing features have been showed such as higher international standard, more sorts and quantity of charts, higher digital levels, and new chart making techniques. Charts will be developed throughout and widely in the 21st century, in which the following developing tendency will be appeared: sorts and quantity of charts to be increased; chart making to be automation ,intellectualized and integration; OGIS to be in wide use; construction of the chart database to be perfected ; chart to be influenced by Digital Earth. Keywords Chart Digital Chart Electronic Chart International Chart Digital Earth The statement and features of the development of Chinese Charts in the 20th Century 1.1 The statement of the development of Chinese Charts in 20th Century In the first half of the 20th Century, there were many wars in china, which led to the low level of the chart’s production and even a stop of chart development. In the period of the KMT ( Kuo Mintang), the publication of the charts depended on the foreign countries because of the shortage of the ability of KMT. There were only about 100 river charts and ocean charts published by the Hydrographic Office during the years from 1922 to 1949 and even a good of parts were compiled from the foreign hydrographical data and charts. After the People’s Republic of China was founded, there were a lot of progresses in the field of chart. In 1950s, the first generation of the chart in China was published. The data of these charts were compiled from the foreign data as basic data and the other new data as