2016年3月22日,国务院第二次全国地名普查领导小组办公室在北京召开了加强地名文化保护暨清理整治不规范地名工作的视频会议。会上,民政部部长李立国说,地名是基本的社会公共信息,也是重要的文化形态和载体,在国家治理、文化传承、国防建设和国际交往等方面广泛地发挥着重要作用。不规范地名的存在,不仅给群众出行带来不便,也丢掉了乡愁记忆。他表示,要在做好地名文化资源调查、地名文化遗产保护等地名文化保护工作的同时,重点清理整治 On March 22, 2016, the State Council’s Second National Geographic Names Leading Group Office held a video conference in Beijing to strengthen the protection of geographical names and to clean up and rectify unqualified names. At the meeting, Li Liguo, Minister of Civil Affairs, said that place names are basic social and public information, as well as important cultural forms and carriers. They play an important role in national governance, cultural heritage, national defense construction, and international contacts. The existence of unstandard place names not only caused inconvenience to the people’s travel, but also lost memories of the homesickness. He said that in order to do a good job in the investigation of names and cultural resources, such as the protection of toponymic cultural heritage, the key to clean up and rectify