The duties and areas of production and business activities, as stipulated in Article 5 of Decision No. 919/QĐ-BTNMT issued by Minister of Natural Resources and Environment dated May 24,2010, including:
- Performing the duties assigned by Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in the field of editing, publishing, printing and distribution of maps, books, natural resource - environment specialized materials on nation wide and abroad.
- Synthesizing publishing demand of maps, books and natural resource - environment specialized materials and other publications, submitting publishing plans to Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and Ministry of Information and Communications for approval; signing publishing decisions under the approved plan.
- Publishing books, specialized materials for the management, legal, scientific - technical dissemination, information and communication on Natural Resources - Environment as prescribed by law.
- Editing, publishing, printing and distributing system of topographic maps, cadastral maps, administrative maps, base maps; thematic maps, atlases, geographic globes on paper, CD - ROM, the internet and on other means, for the management purposes of MONRE serving political, economical, cultural, social, scientific - technical goals.
- Establishing maps administrative boundary dossiers and administrative maps at all levels; establishing planning maps of land use and land use maps; surveying, establishing and updating topolographic maps all scale and Cadastral maps.
- Consulting, designing projects, cost estimates and supervising construction of works within the fields of land administration, surveying, mapping.
- Applying, transferring technology and consulting services in the fields of publishing, printing, distributing, surveying and mapping; designing to build geographic information database, land and environmental resources database and development of GIS applications.
- Printing and distributing books, magazines, calendars, packaging labels, promotional products and other publications serving the domestic demands and exports.
- Trading products, equipment and materials in the field of publishing, printing, distribution and advertizing
- Renting accommodation, workshops, offices and warehouses.
- Training and retraining new technologies in printing and surveying and mapping
- Performing certain tasks or services outside the natural resources - environment sector when permitted by authorities.