China's political, economic and cultural development and social progress and productivity has played a very important role

China's ancient mining production and technical level in the world has been in a leading position for thousands of years, China's political, economic and cultural development and social progress and productivity has played a very important role. But since the feudal dynasty did not pay close attention to sum up experience in order to further development, nor timely attention to the absorption and adoption of other countries in the world of new scientific and technological achievements, resulting in China's modern mining in a very backward state. China's modern mineral geological survey and development work started late. Modern mining development work is from iron ore, coal mine began.