[历史沿革]

    国土资源部是根据１９９８年３月１０日九届全国人大一次会议通过的《关于国务院机构改革的决定》而设立的，１９９８年４月８日正式成立。

    国土资源部是由原地质矿产部、国家土地管理局、国家海洋局和国家测绘局共同组建而成的。

　　[主要职能]

    土地资源 、矿产资源、海洋资源等自然资源的规划、管理、保护与合理利用。

    1998年3月10日，九届人大一次会议第三次全体会议表决通过关于国务院机构改革方案的决定。 根据这个决定，由地质矿产部、国家土地管理局、国家海洋局和国家测绘局共同组建国土资源部。 保留国家海洋局和国家测绘局作为国土资源部的部管国家局。

    按照机构改革方案的说明，新组建的国土资源部的主要职能是：土地资源 、矿产资源、海洋资源等自然资源的规划、管理、保护与合理利用。在国务院机构改革方案中，国务院机构被分为四类：宏观调控部门，专业经济管理部门，教育科技文化、社会保障和资源管理部门，国家政务部门。国土资源部放在教育科技文化、社会保障和资源管理部门一类中，与教育科技文化、社会保障一起作为国民经济发展的基础保障部门，是我国经济发展的后劲所在。这充分突出了国土资源在国民经济中基础地位。

    新建立的国土资源部将依照《中华人民共和国矿产资源法》、《中华人民共和国土地管理法》、《中华人民共和国海洋环境保护法》、《中华人民共和国测绘法》等法律及法规，依法行政。并按照精简、统一、效能的原则，调整组织机构，把部政府职能切实转变到宏观调控、社会管理和公共服务方面来，完善我国的社会主义市场经济体制，建立符合我国市场经济要求的资源管理机制。
 

[History]

     Ministry of Land and Resources is based on March 10, 1998 meeting of the Ninth National People's Congress passed "on the institutional reform of the State Council decided to" set up, April 8, 1998 formally established.

     Ministry of Land and Resources is the former Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, the State Land Administration, State Oceanic Administration and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping from the formation of the common.

[The main function of]

     Land resources, mineral resources, marine resources, natural resources, such as planning, management, protection and rational utilization.

     March 10, 1998, the first meeting of the Ninth National People's Congress passed the third plenary meeting on the institutional reform program of the State Council's decision. According to this decision by the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources, the State Land Administration, State Oceanic Administration and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Ministry of Land and Resources jointly organized and built. Retention of the State Oceanic Administration and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping Ministry of Land and Resources Department as a state bureaus.

     In accordance with the institutional reform program, the newly formed Ministry of Land and Resources of the main functions are: land resources, mineral resources, marine resources, natural resources, such as planning, management, protection and rational utilization. Institutional reform program of the State Council, the State Council has been divided into four categories: macro-control departments, specialized economic management departments, education, science, technology and culture, social security and resource management sector, the National Administrative Department. Ministry of Land and Resources on education, science and technology, culture, social protection and resource management department for a class in science, technology and culture and education, with social security as the basis for national economic development and social security departments of China's economic development lies. This highlights the land and resources based on the status in the national economy.

     The newly established Ministry of Land and Resources will be in accordance with the "People's Republic of China Mineral Resources Law", "People's Republic of China Land Management Law," "the People's Republic of Marine Environmental Protection Law," "the People's Republic of Surveying and Mapping Law" and other laws and regulations, according to the Chief . And in accordance with the simplification, unification, the principle of performance, adjusting the organizational structure, to the Department to transform government functions to the macro-control, social management and public services to improve China's socialist market economic system, the establishment of China's market economy in line with the requirements of the Resource Management mechanism.