Abstract: The core competitiveness of geological survey organizations is formed through the integration of various factors under the specific circumstances.It is a dynamic capability system for geological survey organizations to maintain their long-term competitive advantage.At present, most of the geological survey organizations evaluations are comparative studies, and only a few have established quantitative evaluation models based on comprehensive strength.The evaluation of comprehensive strength mainly focuses on the overall strength and static status, while the core competitiveness highlights the overall advantage in addition to specific characteristics, which reflects not only the dynamic capabilities, but also specific advantages of geological survey organizations.It is of great significance for China Geological Survey to understand its core strengths and weaknesses and find gaps in the evaluation of the core competitiveness among various geological survey organizations across the world.This paper starts from the conceptual model of the core competitiveness of geological survey organizations, and considers different aspects such as soft and hard capabilities, short-term static and long-term dynamics factors, and builds four-factor evaluation model (4I model) mainly including four major factors as follows:innovation capacity, institution capacity, intelligence capacity and integration capacity.This model comprehensively evaluated the core competitiveness of 8 national geological survey organizations.It provides an important basis for China Geological Survey to identify its own advantages and disadvantages and the actual position across the world, and to build a new type of world-class geological survey organizations.