Abstract:Laiwu is located in central Shandong Province with obvious location advantage and good industrial base. It is necessary to provide basic geographic information data for the implementation of the strategy of economic development, including geographical environment, ecological system and strategic layout of a full range of scientific analysis and assistant decisionmaking. In this paper, present situation of basic mapping development in Laiwu city has been analyzed, and differences between surveying and mapping work has been found out. It is believed that perfect and stable funding mechanism for basic surveying and mapping should be establish in the future. Development and application of the achievements should be accelerated.