一九四九年十月一日，中华人民共和国宣告成立。新中国的诞生使地质探矿事业获得了新生，从此我国探矿工程工作进入了创建阶段。刚解放时，由旧政权接受过来的只有十四台钻机，全国仅有二百多名地质人员，连同其它职工总共八百人。旧中国近半个世纪钻探总进尺仅17万米。十二月三十日，毛主席在莫斯科接见我留苏学生时题词：“开发矿业”。这一号召一直激励着广大地质探矿职工奋勇向前！ On October 1, 1949, the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed. The birth of New China has given birth to a new life in geological prospecting. Since then, China’s exploration engineering has entered a phase of creation. Just after the liberation, only 14 drilling rigs were accepted by the old regime, and there were only more than 200 geologists in the country, together with a total of 800 other workers. In the past half a century, old China drilled only 170,000 meters of footage. On December 30, when Chairman Mao met with a student studying in Suzhou in Moscow, he wrote an inscription: “Develop Mining.” This call has always inspired the majority of geological prospecting workers to move forward!