Abstract: China’s economic development needs a stable and sustainable supply of mineral resources.At present,China's mineral resources prospecting market situation is not optimistic,to realize the goal of prospecting breakthrough strategy of second stage and third stage action facing new challenges.This paper summarize the experiences of developed country risk exploration incentive policies from five aspects such as exploration risk capital market,tax regulation,fiscal subsidies,geologic data service,prospecting right access and make adaptability analysis combined with China’s actual situation,consider that the mining capital market is the main channel of developed countries to share the risks of mineral exploration,the short term mining capital market in China has not yet fully developed,its necessary to increase the state’s financial to support risk exploration,share enterprises prospecting risk,incent and guide social capital investment.