自从1977年国家成立地名机构以来,我国的地名事业得到了长足的发展,取得了可喜的成果。地名普查之后,国家地名主管部门适时地提出了地名工作从开创阶段转入以城镇地名管理为主的阶段。但是,国家地名主管部门的领导方式仍然停留在前一阶段的水平上。使整个地名系统早已存在的“工作范畴不够统一”的状况在新的时期更加显得突出。多年来,无论是全国各 Since the establishment of geographical names agencies in 1977, China’s place name business has made considerable progress and achieved gratifying results. After the census of names, the national names authorities proposed in a timely manner the work of toponymic names from the initial stage to the management of town names. However, the leadership of the national geographical names authority still stays at the level of the previous phase. The situation of “the work scope is not unified” that existed in the entire place name system has become more prominent in the new period. Over the years, both nationwide