With the development of computer, communication and network technology, information has become a significant driving factor for the increase of productivity as well as national strategic resource. Aiming at upgrading information sharing and integration with regard to sustainable development, meeting the demand from government agencies, and researching institutions and all sectors in the society, the Administrative Center for China’ Agenda 21 (ACCA21) has established the Chinese Sustainable Development Network Center and the Chinese Sustainable Development Information with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

　This network is established with the support of the National Key Technologies Research and Development Programmes of China and with the participation of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the State Development Planning Commission (SDPC), the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), the Ministry of Land and Resources (MOLR), the Ministry of Water Resources (MOWR), the Academy of Sciences (CAS), the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM), the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), the State Forestry Administration (SFA), the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), the China Seismological Bureau (CSB), and other relevant agencies. More than first achieving information-sharing in the network, the accomplish of the network has also conducted research made on breakthrough in policies and mechanism, standardization and technology integration in view of “bottleneck-problems ”in information sharing. It has become an excellent and influential model of how to realize the sharing of our fundamental information for the public good. Additionally, it provides tremendous social and economic benefits.

　This network is an information management system composed of databases groups of different types, which are either concentrated or distributed. It mainly contains information on natural resources, eco-environments, environmental protection and natural disasters in china and also provide some information on social and economic issues and some additional information on sustainable development related policies, laws and regulations, knowledge and dictionaries dynamic news as well as relevant international and domestic websites or websites linked to database. There is a great diversity in forms of information such as attribute data, spatial data and multimedia data. The network contains one network center and sixteen distributed sub centers via the Internet.

　The network center is part of the structure of the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21 as a pool for free-sharing data related to macro aspect of sustainable development. The Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21 is responsible for the coordination of the sub-centers and turn them into integral parts of systematic body, which offers various services to the users including consultancy and information download as means to realize information-sharing. With operative systems through databases such as ORACLE, SQLSERVER and spatial data such as ARCINFO, ARCSDE, MAPOBJECT and GEOBEAN and so on, it conducts comprehensive management of the attribute data and spatial data in the network center and its sub-centers. It furnishes complex information services composed of pictures and texts along with visual facilities for diversified analysis. The network enjoys good potential for expansion. Fireproofing walls ensure the high security and reliability of the system. Each database can be searched or visited through metadata and other searching tools.