The Vegetation Map of the People's Republic of China (1:1,000,000) is a scientific achievement completed by more than 200 scientists, including Academicians Hou Xueyu and Zhang Xinshi, after more than 30 years of hard work. This atlas exhibits the whole picture of vegetation in China, including the distribution of 55 vegetation types, 960 types of formations, and more than 2,000 dominant plant species. The illustrations for this atlas present detailed information on the geographic patterns of vegetation, vegetation classification principles and systems, the floristic composition of vegetation formations and subformations, community characteristics, habitat conditions, and eco-geographic distribution patterns, as well as brief and refined evaluations of the economic value of plants.The atlas is the first to digitize thematic resource maps on a national scale, thereby greatly promoting advances in vegetation ecology and bridging vegetation science with related sciences; it is essential for natural resource management, environmental monitoring, basic research, and other public services.