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Land Administration

with local governments continued to implement a renewal survey of cadastral maps in Taiwan from
1973 to 2017. A total 8,342,713 plots of land covering an area of 690,112 hectares were completed

during this period, including 209,638 plots of land covering an area of 27,551 hectares during 2017.

2. Management of the Surveying Service

The management of the surveying industry is regulated by the Land Surveying and Mapping Act, the
specific articles of which stipulate that the surveying business must operate within certain parameters

and that it must function in a responsible manner. Thus, firms in this industry must employ professional
survey engineers with registered practitioner engineering licenses. In addition, these companies cannot
commence until this business registration has been appropriately filed and proper certification issued by
the central authority concerned. By the end of 2017, 130 survey organizations had been so examined and
approved. Among them, 11 companies had their business suspended and 8 were closed. In total, there

were 111 organizations in operation with 384 professional survey engineers.

3. Provision of Digital Terrain Model Results

In order to promote the utilization planning of national land and to fully achieve the sustained
operation of national land, the MOI had provided high precision and high resolution DTM results for use

for all government agencies from 2006 to 2017. A total 619,745 maps of 413 applications for data had
been examined and approved during this period, including 92,301 maps of 92 applications for data had
been examined and approved during 2017.

4. Provision of Basic Survey Results

The fruitful results of basic surveys and their derivatives are quite beneficial aspects of domestic

construction. Commencing with projects initiated in 1993, all the relevant published results have been
applied to related materials regarding environmental protection, forestation, continuous ecological
management, eco-tours, water and soil conservation, river and creek renovation, flood prevention, power
supply engineering, science park development, reservoir engineering, high-speed railways, metro rapid

transportation, expressways, sewer construction, monitoring water tables, urban and rural development,
offshore island construction, space technological development, geosciences, resource exploration,
oceanography science, military security and fault monitoring etc. By the end of 2017, 128 applications for
data had been examined and approved (See Table 5-9).

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