An American mining geophysics delegation visited the People’s Republic of China in 1979, at the invitation of the Ministry of Geology, to lecture and visit various technical institutions. Places visited included a geophysical computer center, air‐borne geophysical brigade, geophysical instrument factories in Beijing and Shanghai, Changchun Geological College in northeast China, the Geological Bureaus of Anhui and Jiangxi Province, Dexing copper mine in Jiangxi Province, the Uranium Geology Research Institute, and the State Seismological Bureau. A thorough understanding was obtained of the overlapping and sometimes competing exploration organizations in China. The delegation heard descriptions of mining geophysical and geochemical exploration techniques and case histories and saw a variety of geophysical instruments and geophysical and geological maps of various ore deposits and oil fields. Largely closed to outside contact for the past 30 years, China appears to practice the science of geophysical exploration as is done in the West but, as expected, does not yet possess state‐of‐the‐art exploration technology such as modern computers and instrumentation. The large numbers of trained professional persons in exploration, the variety of adequate instrumentation, and the many ore deposits discovered over the past 30 years is nevertheless impressive.
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