Development history of mineral resources in China

The development and utilization of mineral resources in China has a long history. As early as the Paleolithic Age, the ancestors of the Chinese nation began to use flint, chalcedony, timely, jade and other minerals and some hard stones. Later, clay mines were also used to burn pottery. After entering the Neolithic Age, there were not only ordinary pottery, but also painted pottery, and jade was made of jade. After that, the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age began.

Bronze wares were used in the 2nd/kloc-0th century BC, that is, the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty in China's history.

In Shang Dynasty, not only the pottery and jade carving industries developed greatly, but also the bronze manufacturing industry appeared, and bronze was used to make tools and weapons. Man entered the bronze age.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, our ancestors learned the technology of mining and smelting iron ore, and ironware was widely used in agriculture, handicrafts and war.

By the Warring States period, iron products were more widely used, and society began to move towards the Iron Age.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, ironware has been widely used in production, coal has been used as fuel, and the quality of steel has reached a high level. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the mining industry in China entered a prosperous period, and the mining industry in many parts of the country developed. After that, until 1000 years ago 1949, mining activities continued, but the development was very slow. 1949 the national annual output is 32.43 million tons of coal,120,000 tons of oil,158,000 tons of steel,130,000 tons of non-ferrous metals, only 660,000 tons of cement, 40,000 tons of sulfuric acid, 20,000 tons of pyrite and 19565433.

Since 1949, the exploration and development of mineral resources have achieved all-round high-speed development, which has effectively promoted the development of energy and raw materials industries, making China a big mining country and a big producer of energy and raw materials.