Western Exploitation and Digital Earth
西部开发与“数字地球“

The strategy of western exploitation takes science and technology as the first step and IT industry as the breakthrough point, to avoid rough exploitation and reduce environmental pollution. Thus, digital earth could play an important role in it. In addition, the whole environment should be taken into account for the strategy as well as the interaction and coupling among the environmental elements such as atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, considering the background of global change, as well as the change of Eastern Asia continent. That's just the strongpoint of digital earth, which studies the earth as a whole. Thereby,"digital earth" should be applied in the western exploitation, to transform western information resources into increasing knowledge assets through investment of knowledge capital.