LIESMARS,National Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying,Mapping and Remote Sensing,is an exclusive state key laboratory in the field of surveying and mapping in China.By its active academic thoughts, fruitful research achievements and extensive international cooperation and academic exchange,it has been the center of basic and applied basic scientific research in surveying and mapping in China.This paper reviews the progress and development of LIESMARS for the past ten years,and especially focuses on its research achievements,the achievements is industrialization,personnel training and openness to the outside,Based on summing up the experience,it puts forwards five aspects of work ahead for managing the national laboratory,which may be used for reference by other ones.