Interesting hand-drawn traveler's map and various maps related to economic development, transportation, and architecture are on public display in an Eye on the World Map Exhibition started Thursday.

Jointly presented by the Hong Kong Public Libraries and the Marco Polo's Cartocell, the three-week long exhibition, being held at the Exhibition Gallery of the Hong Kong Central Library, is showing more than 200 modern and ancient maps.

The exhibition is organized under themes featuring Chinese ancient map Six Classics Stone Carvings and Origination of Tibet. Other exhibition zones include Travel and Scenery, Famous Mountains and Rivers, World Nations, Transportation and Navigation, Natural Disaster and Geography and Military Wars and Battles etc.

To commemorate ancient Chinese General Zheng He's seven royal expeditions 600 years ago, old maps published in the late Ming Dynasty and some 19th Century engraving prints indicating the lifestyles of the native residents in places visited by Zheng are also shown.
 
(Xinhua News Agency March 11, 2005)