新发现矿产地 是指报告期内通过各类地质调查工作，或者根据群众报矿、群众采矿线索新发现的，并经过矿产调查工作证实为有进一步工作意义或具有工业价值，具有一定规模，作出初步评价的矿区。
查明资源量 在本表中的查明资源量主要是推断的内蕴经济资源量（333）以上的资源量。
坑探工作量 是指用凿岩机械或人工开凿的各种坑道工程，以“米”计量，取整数。
机械岩心钻探工作量 是指用动力机械带动，回转或冲击回转钻进，并以取出岩心了解和研究地下地质情况为目的的钻探工作。如手轮给进钻机、油压钻机、石油钻机、海洋石油钻机、水文水井钻机以及汽车钻机等。以“米”计量，取整数。
地质勘查经费 是指报告期完成的来自各方面的地质勘查资金。包括完成的中央财政、地方财政地质勘查拨款，企事业单位、港澳台商、外商投入的地质勘查工作的资金以及其他资金。
中央财政专项拨款 是指报告期实际完成的由国家预算收支科目安排的直接用于地质勘查经费。
地方财政专项拨款 是指报告期实际完成的地方财政拨付的地质勘查经费。
地勘基金 是指在报告期内，由中央财政和地方财政拨款，通过项目招标的形式，主要用于支持重点矿种、重要成矿区带的矿产前期勘查的专项资金。
企事业资金 是指报告期完成的各类企事业单位投入的地质勘查工作的资金。包括国内企事业资金、港澳台商投资和外商投资。
国内企事业资金 是指报告期完成的国有、集体企事业单位和私营企业投入地质勘查工作的资金。
港澳台商投资 是指港澳台企业和经济组织或个人按我国有关政策、法规，用现汇、实物（折资）和技术等投入地质勘查工作的资金。
外商投资 是指报告期内完成境外投入地质勘查工作的资金，包括外商直接投资、对外借贷（外国政府贷款、国际金融组织贷款、出口信贷、外国银行商业贷款、对外发行债券和股票）及外商其他投资（包括补偿贸易和加工装配由外商提供的设备价款、国际租赁）。不包括我国自有外汇资金（包括国家外汇、地方外汇、流程外汇、调剂外汇和中国银行自有资金发行的外汇贷款等）。
年末地质勘查人员 是指年末在职职工中，直接从事地质勘查工作的人员。
技术人员 是指在国土资源调查项目中从事工作并取得劳动报酬的，具有初级及初级以上地质勘查或土地勘测技术职称的专业技术人员。包括地质技术人员、工程技术人员、物化探技术人员、土地勘测、测绘、岩矿鉴定、化验等技术人员。
平均从业人员 是指报告期内在地勘单位平均每天实有的从业人员。平均从业人数=（年初人数+年末人数）/2 或用年度各月平均人数之和除以 12。
总资产 是指填报单位年末拥有或控制的全部资产总额，包括流动资产、长期投资、固定资产、无形及递延资产、其他长期资产、递延税项等，为本单位资产负债表的资产总计项。
总负债 是指填报单位年末所承担的能以货币计量，将以资产或劳务偿付的债务。
总收入 是指报告期内地质勘查资质单位从事地质勘查等经济活动所取得的各种收入，包括地勘业收入、矿业权转让收入、矿产开发收入、工程勘察施工收入和其他收入。
地勘业收入 是指报告期内从事地质勘查经济活动所取得的各种收入。包括地质勘探费、地质专项拨款、矿产勘查劳务收入等。其中，矿产勘查劳务收入中包括了在本地区注册登记或本系统直属的具有地质勘查资质的单位在本省及省外、境外从事地质勘查工作所获得的收入，以及以合作、入股等方式获得的地质勘查收入。涉外是指地勘单位在从事的地勘项目中由境外投资所带来的收入。
地质勘探费 是指报告期内国家（中央和地方）预算用于本单位地质勘探工作的费用，包括地质勘查管理机构及其事业单位经费、地质勘探经费等，按中央财政和地方财政投入分别统计。
中央财政专项拨款 是指在报告期内地勘单位取得的中央财政专项拨款费用。
地方财政专项拨款 是指在报告期内地勘单位取得的地方财政专项拨款费用。
国土资源大调查经费 是指报告期内地勘单位取得的中央地质专项拨款费用，用于地质大调查项目工作。
地勘基金 是指在报告期内由中央财政和地方财政拨款，通过项目招标的形式，主要用于支持重点矿种、重要成矿区带的矿产前期勘查的专项资金。
矿产勘查劳务收入 是指报告期内填报单位在本省及省外、境外从事地质勘查工作取得的收入及以合作、入股等方式取得的地质勘查收入。
涉外 是指报告期内填报单位在从事的地勘项目中由境外投资所带来的收入。
矿业权转让收入 是指地勘单位通过矿业权转让取得的收入。
矿产开发收入 是指地勘单位从事矿产开发经营活动取得的收入。
工程勘察施工收入 是指地勘单位从事工程勘察施工经营活动取得的各项收入。
其他收入 是指报告期内地勘单位从事除地质勘查、矿业权转让、矿产开发、工程勘察施工等以外的经济活动所取得的其他收入。
地质找矿支出 是指报告期内填报单位因地质找矿活动而发生的各项费用支出总额。自有资金是指地质找矿支出中属于单位自有资金的部分。
矿产开发支出 是指报告期内填报单位因矿产开发经营活动而发生的各项费用支出总额。
总支出 是指地勘单位在报告期内发生的各种经济支出。
Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators
New mineral occurrence — refers to a mineral occurrence that is newly found through all kinds of geological survey or on the basis of the ore information and clues reported by the broad masses of people, demonstrated through mineral surveys to be of value for further work or of industrial value and have a certain size, and evaluated preliminarily during the reporting period.
Identified resources — mainly refer to resources above inferred potentially economic resources(333).
Advance of tunneling — refers to the advances of various underground workings excavated by rock drills or manual operations. It is calculated by “meters” and rounded off.
Penetration of core drilling — refers to the penetration of rotary or percussive drilling driven by power machinery that recovers the core in order to study the underground geology. The drills include hand-lever feed drills, hydraulic feed drills, oil drills, marine oil drills, hydrological water well drills, and truck-mounted drills. It is calculated in “meters” and rounded off.
Funds of geological exploration — refer to the funds for geological exploration from various sides completed during the reporting period. They include funds allocated from the Central and local financial budgets for geological exploration, funds invested by enterprises and institutions, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan businessmen, and foreign businessmen for geological exploration, and other funds.
Central special budgetary allocations — refer to expenditures directly used for geological exploration and arranged by the state budgeted revenue and expenditure account, which are actually completed during the reporting period.
Local special budgetary allocations — refer to expenditures for geological exploration and allocated by local finance, which are actually completed during the reporting period.
Fund of geological exploration — refers to the special fund of early-stage mineral resource exploration mainly used to support exploration of major useful minerals and important metallogenic regions (belts), which is allocated from the Central and local budgets during the reporting period and obtained in the way of the project bidding.
Funds from enterprises and institutions — refer to the funds invested by various enterprises and institutions for geological exploration, which are completed during the reporting period. They include funds invested by domestic enterprises and institutions, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan businessmen, and foreign businessmen.
Funds from domestic enterprises and institutions — refer to the funds invested by state- and collective-owned enterprises and institutions and private enterprises for geological exploration, which are completed during the reporting period.
Investments from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan — refer to the funds invested by Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan enterprises or economic establishments or individuals in cash, kind (converted into money according to the price indices), and technologies for geological exploration according to relevant policies, laws and regulations of China.
Foreign investment — refers to the funds invested from abroad for geological exploration, which are completed during the reporting period. They include foreign direct investments, foreign loans (loans from foreign governments, loans from international financial organizations, export credit loan, commercial loans from foreign banks, and bonds and stocks issued abroad) and other investments of foreigners (including compensation trade, processing and assembling for which the equipment and funds are provided by foreign businessmen, and international leasing) but China’s free exchange funds (including national exchanges, local exchanges, floating exchanges, accommodation exchanges, and foreign exchanges loans issued using the equity capital of the Bank of China) are excluded.
Yearend exploration personnel — refer to the personnel who directly engage in geological exploration among employees on the job at the year end.
Technical personnel — refer to professional technical personnel who work in geological exploration units and receive payments and have technical titles of geological survey or mineral exploration at and above the junior titles. They include geological technical personnel, engineering technical personnel, geophysical and geochemical technical personnel, surveying and mapping personnel, and technical personnel for identification and chemical analysis of rocks and minerals.
Average employees — refer to the average daily number of employees of geological exploration units during the reporting period. The average number of employees=(number of employees at year beginning + number of employees at year end)/2 or the sum of the average monthly numbers during the current year/12.
Total assets — refers to the total amount of all the assets owned or controlled by the reporting units at the year end, including current assets, long-term investment, fixed assets, immaterial assets, and deferred taxes.
Total debts — refer to the debts assumed by the filling units at the year end, which can be measured as currency and repaid by assets or labor services.
General revenue — refers to all kinds of revenue obtained in economic activities such as geological exploration carried out by qualified geological exploration units during the reporting period, including revenues from geological exploration, transfer of mining rights, mineral resources development, and engineering surveys and operations, and other revenues.
Revenue from geological exploration — refers to all kinds of revenue obtained in economic activities of geological exploration, including fees of geological exploration, special allocations for geology, and revenue of labor services of mineral exploration. Of these, the revenue of labor services of mineral exploration includes the revenue of geological exploration carried out by qualified geological exploration units registered in the area or affiliated to the system inside and outside the province and abroad and the revenue of geological exploration obtained through cooperation and investment as share-holders. Foreign-related refers to the revenue brought by Chinese investment abroad by geological exploration units in their geological exploration projects.
Fees of geological exploration — refer to the fees used for geological exploration of a unit from the State (Central and local) budgets during the reporting period, including funds of administration departments in charge of geological exploration and their institutions and funds of geological exploration, which are calculated separately according to the Central and local financial inputs.
Central special budgetary allocations — refer to the funds obtained by geological exploration units from the Central special budgetary allocations during the reporting period.
Local special budgetary allocations — refer to the funds obtained by geological exploration units from the local special budgetary allocations during the reporting period.
Funds of the land and resources survey — refer to the funds obtained by geological exploration units from the Central geological special budgetary allocation during the reporting period, which are used in the geological survey project.
Fund of geological exploration — refers to the special fund of early-stage mineral resource exploration mainly used to support exploration of major useful minerals and important metallogenic regions (belts), which is allocated from the Central and local budgets during the reporting period and obtained in the way of the project bidding.
Revenue of labor services of mineral exploration — refers to the revenue of geological exploration carried out by the reporting units during the reporting period inside and outside the province and abroad
and the revenue of geological exploration obtained through cooperation and investment as share-holders.
Foreign-related — refers to the revenue brought by Chinese investment abroad of the reporting units in their geological exploration projects during the reporting period.
Revenue from transfer of mining rights — refers to the revenue obtained by geological exploration units through transfer of mining rights.
Revenue from mineral resource development — refers to the revenue obtained by geological exploration units through carrying out mineral resource developments and operations.
Revenue from engineering surveys and operations — refers to all items of revenues obtained by geological exploration units through carrying out engineering surveys and operations.
Other revenues — refer to other revenues obtained by geological exploration units during the reporting period through economic activities except geological exploration, transfer of mining rights, mineral resource development, and engineering surveys and operations.
Expenditures of mineral exploration — refer to the total amount of all items of expenditures incurred due to mineral exploration of reporting units during the reporting period. Free fund refers to the part of fund belonging to the free fund of the units in the expenditures of mineral exploration.
Expenditures of mineral resource development — refer to the total amount of all items of expenditures incurred due to mineral resource developments and operations of reporting units during the reporting period.
General expenditures — refer to all kinds of expenditures of geological exploration units incurred during the reporting period.