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In 1916, the first generation of geological graduates entered the China Geological Survey and opened a new era of geological survey in China. Over the past 100 years, generations of geologists have made outstanding contributions to the geological survey and prospecting for China’s prosperity. They measure the ground, search for treasures, explore the earth, and engrave the beautiful mountains and rivers. As geologists, they completed many beautiful geological maps with the skill of the painter. These geological maps are not only the carrier of the expression of geological work, but also the geologists to create artworks.

In 1903, Zhou Shuren (pseudonym is Lu Xun) said in his : “Observe the national conditions is not a difficult task. There is no home-made precise geological map in its territory and its city of a non-civilized country.” In 1906, the compiled by Gu Lang and Zhou Shuren is the earliest geological map in China.

In 1936, Huang Jiqing published the , Nan Yanzong’s and Wang Bingzhang’s in 1937, which made the first step toward “unification” and “standardization” in geological mapping in China.

With the rapid development of national construction and geological work, from 1953 to 1956, the state set up four Sino-Soviet cooperation regional geological survey brigades (Xinjiang 13th geological brigade, Daxing’anling geological brigade, Qinling geological brigade, and Nanling geological brigade). The , compiled by Huang Jiqing and Xie Jiarong in 1954, put forward unified requirements for stratigraphic division, use of geological codes, various pattern symbols, and color marks in field mapping, thus providing scientific basis for unified representation of large-scale geological maps in China. Through Sino-Soviet cooperation and the unremitting efforts of our geological predecessors, a new situation has been opened up for the regional geological survey and geological mapping in China.

During the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources deployed a pilot project for the construction of space database of 1:20 million. Since 2000, China Geological Survey has developed computer mapping systems in combination with regional geological survey. From 1999 to 2006, the China Geological Survey (CGS) completed a number of 1:250000 Regional geological maps using 3S technology in the area of 152,000 km in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its adjacent areas, in accordance with the unified mapping technical standards. This is an epoch-making project, marking the full completion of the medium-scale regional geological survey of China’s land. What Lu Xun has said, “There is no home-made precise geological map in its territory and its city of a non-civilized country” has been fully realized.