Abstract: The total geological explortaon input is RMB 984.1 billion Yuan in China from 2001 to 2014,and the reserves & resources of bulk minerals continue increaseing year by year.At the same time,the geological exploraton industry develops very quickly.However,there are many problems during the development of the geological exploraton industry,such as most input from government or state-owned enterprises,unreasonable structure of geological exploration enterprises,low market-oriented level and overplus of geological exploration enterprises.To solve these problems,geological exploration enterprises should change their thoughts,combine the geological work with the regional economic development,and expand the range of their business.Therefore,geological exploration will be a better development.