After the founding of New China, through the combination of large-scale geological exploration and mass prospecting, it has been proved that China's mineral resources are very rich and complete. There are more than 50 known minerals/kloc-0 in the world, and China's proven reserves 136 by the end of 1984, of which more than 20 are among the top in the world. While prospecting for minerals, mining bases such as ferrous metals, coal, petroleum, nonferrous metals and rare elements should be established step by step in a planned way to meet the needs of agriculture, industry, national defense and scientific and technological modernization.