我国地质工作基础在国民党反动集团的統治时期是十分薄弱的。极少数的地质工作者虽已作了一些矿产资源的勘查工作,但是很不完整,許多地区未进行过地質調查,至于采用新技术来勘探地下資源的工作就根本沒有。比如在勘探机械方面,旧中国仅仅遺留下 The foundation of our country’s geological work was very weak during the reign of the Kuomintang reactionary groups. Although a handful of geologists have already done exploration work on some mineral resources, they are incomplete. Many regions have not conducted geological surveys, and there is no work on the use of new technologies to explore underground resources. For example, in the field of exploration machinery, old China has only left behind