Entrusted by the Department of High and New Technology Development and Industrialization of MOST, the National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC) organized China Association for Geographic Information System, the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences and China Association for Environmental Remote Sensing (CAERS) to conduct the annual testing of the software of such spatial information systems as the geographical information system, remote-sensing image processing and satellite navigation positioning application. China has independent copyright to all the three systems. The test was carried out by the Spatial Information System Software Testing Center of NRSCC.

NRSCC held a conference on 31 July to establish the expert committee for the software testing and deploy relevant work. ZHU Boqin, Secretary General of China Association for Environmental Remote Sensing attended the conference. JIN Yiming, Deputy Director-General of NRSCC attended the conference and presented certificates to the experts. According to plan, concentrated testing will begin in the middle of August.