The project "survey of glacier resources and their changes in China" is a national science and technology basic work project supported by the Ministry of science and technology of China (2006 fy110200). The project undertaker is the Institute of cold and arid region environment and engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the main participating units are Institute of cold and arid area environment and engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of geography and resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences The project was started in 2006 and ended in 2011 by Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Institute of remote sensing application, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lanzhou University, Ministry of education. In order to make the data results more widely used, after the end of the project, the data results are shared. When using this data, the user must clearly state the data source in the corresponding research results (including papers, monographs, reports, etc.), and it is suggested that users should refer to the data and related literature according to the citation information provided in the metadata. The proposed format of data source statement is as follows: Chinese format: data from the national science and technology basic work special project "China glacier resources and its change survey" (2006 fy110200) and the important direction project of knowledge innovation project of Chinese Academy of Sciences: Research on glacier change monitoring and its impact assessment method in Western China (Project No.: kzcx2-yw-301); English format: this dataset is provided by "Investitagion on glacier resources and their change in China"（2006FY110200） and "Glacier change monitoring and its impact assessment research in west China"（:kzcx2-yw-301）