我国是世界上开发和利用铁矿资源最早的国家之一。远在公元前5—6世纪时我国就有了铁器,公元前一世纪左右更有了完善的冻铁炉,而在欧洲这样的炼铁炉直到中世纪才出现。但因长期的封建统治,我国社会生产力发展很慢,铁矿采冶事业也就得不到应有的发展。近几十年来,我国虽然有了近代地质科学,但在反动政府根本不重视发展工业的状况下,纵然有若干地质工作者调查和研究了国内一些铁矿产地,伹未曾做过任何系统的勘探工作。抗日战争时期,日帝国主义为了进一步掠夺我国的地下资源,曾在东北、华北及华中做过一些较详细的调查工作,伹探明的铁 China is one of the earliest countries in the world to develop and utilize iron ore resources. Far from the 5th to the 6th century BC, there was ironworks in our country, and the perfect frozen iron furnace was around the 1st century BC, but such ironmaking furnaces in Europe did not appear until the Middle Ages. However, due to the long period of feudal rule, the development of social productive forces in our country is very slow and the iron ore mining and metallurgy industry can not get the due development. In recent decades, despite the modern geological sciences in our country, even though the reactionary government did not attach importance to the development of industry, even though some geological workers investigated and researched some domestic iron ore producing places, they have not conducted any systematic exploration jobs. During the Anti-Japanese War, in order to further plunder the underground resources of our country, the Japanese imperialists conducted some more detailed investigations in the northeast, north China and central China,