Huang Xiaohu and His Delegation Inspect Land Surveying Technology and Institution in Brazil and Argentina

Headed by Huang Xiaohu, Secretary of China Land Science Society, and Fan Zhiquan, Delegation Counselor and Director of Cadastral Department of Ministry of Land and Resources, the land surveying technology and institution inspection delegation of 20 people made an academic visit to Brazil and Argentina from May 24^th to June 8^th, 2006. The visit was sponsored and organized by China Land Science Society and China Land Survey and Planning Institute The visit had three major purposes: first, to have an overall understanding about the application areas in Brazil of the Sino-Brazil earth resource satellite’s remote sense data and the current situation and foreground of the application in their land survey and land administration so as to bring their application experiences and mature technologies home for the purpose of promoting the application in our land resource survey, improving the technology application level in our land administration and expanding its application areas; second, to

learn the land surveying institutions in both Brazil and Argentina, not just because they are both developing countries but also the big countries known for rich resources; third , through this visit, to further strengthen the cooperation with both Brazil and Argentina in the related application areas.

During the inspection tour, the delegation visited the Argentine State-owned Asset Administration Bureau, Brazilian Ministry of Land Development and its subsidiary National Land Reform and Development Bureau, Brazilian Geography and Statistic Bureau, Itaipú Hydraulic Power Station and Brazilian National Space Institute etc. The peers of the two parties exchanged views on the development and current situation of their own land administration, the Sino-Brazil earth resource satellite’s remotely sensed data application in Brazil and built up channels for cooperation. Taking the limited time available for him before the President’s meeting the delegation, Mr. Guilherme Cassel, Minister of Ministry of Land Development, received the Huang Xiaohu, the delegation leader, and Fan Zhiquan, the delegation counselor, and clearly expressed his desire to strengthen the cooperation between the two ministries and produced a memorandum text for cooperation and asked the delegation to pass it to China’s Ministry of Land and Resources. Through the inspection tour, the delegation had well learnt about the basic conditions of the society, economy and nature of the South American countries, and had deeply, to some extent, learnt about the land administration institutions and their evolutions, having reached the expected target of the visit.

The delegation exchanged views with Argentine State-owned Asset Bureau on land administration institution

The delegation in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, listened to the introduction, made by Brazilian Agriculture Development Ministry and Land Reform Bureau respectively, about the policies and measurements adopted by and the experiences of small agricultural economy.

In Rio, the delegation listened to the introduction, made by the Brazilian Geography and Statistic Bureau, about Brazilian mapping technology, methods of information investigation, information statistic and information publication, and visited the workshop.

At the Itaipú Hydraulic Power Station, managers showed the delegation its history, its current situation and their immigrant resettlement policy.

In St. Paul, the delegation exchanged views with Brazilian National Space Institute on the development and application of Sino-Brazil earth resource satellite and visited the satellite assembling and testing workshops and their research and development section.