Abstract: China's provincial geological exploration funds were established by provinces aiming at exploration discoveries with focusing on key minerals and in major metallogenetic zones at their initial exploitation.Since their establishment in 2004, provincial geological exploration funds have been focused on guaranteeing national minerals security, dramatically financially aided geological exploration works on key minerals and in major metallogenetic zones, which plays a critical role in China's exploration discoveries and increasing resources. This paper takes the provincial geological exploration funds in China as the starting point, sorts out and studies its establishment, adjustment, operation, results and benefits.Provincial geological exploration funds greatly promote China's geological exploration, mainly including implementing the national mining work deployment, promoting China's mining industry to achieve fruitful results, attracting social capital to diversify investments in provincial geological exploration funds, playing a guiding role in China's geological exploration, and bearing exploration risks.Some issues also exist pending for improvements, mainly including provincial geological exploration funds have been decreased largely，and disadvantages in the current resources administrative system result in a lagging “commercial following” of geological exploration projects funded by provincial geological exploration funds, thus blocking social capital into geological exploration.China's budget managing ways of geological exploration funds and other factors make profits of provincial geological exploration funds hard to be converted into reinvestments in a short term, constraining the recycling and sustainability of provincial geological exploration funds. Uncertainties in supports, investing sizes and investing modes of provincial financial authorities on provincial geological exploration funds lead to lack of stable fund sources in provincial geological exploration funds.

Key words: provincial geological exploration funds, major breakthrough in geological prospecting, guarantee mineral resource security, exploration achievements, diversity of investors

摘要： 中国的省级地质勘查基金是为了实现国家地质找矿重大突破，而由我国各省份（自治区、直辖市）设立的专项地质勘查基金，着重用于支持对各省重点矿种和重要成矿区（带）的前期勘查工作。自2004年我国开始设立省级地勘基金以来，该基金紧紧围绕着保障国家矿产资源安全这一目标，大力资助了我国各省对重点矿种与重要成矿区（带）的地质勘查工作，从而在我国的地质找矿突破及矿产资源的增储上产方面均发挥出了重要作用。本文以我国省级地勘基金为切入点，梳理和研究了其设立情况、调整情况、运行情况、成果收益情况，并得出了如下主要结论：1）省级地勘基金对我国的地质勘查事业发挥了十分重要的促进作用，其中主要包括：落实了国家找矿工作部署，推动了我国的找矿事业取得了丰硕的成果；吸引了社会资本，实现了省级地勘基金投资对象的多元化；在我国的地质勘查事业中起到了方向引导作用；承担了一定的矿产勘查风险。2）我国的省级地勘基金也存在着一些需要亟待解决的问题,其中主要包括：a. 省级地勘基金投资规模锐减；b.国家现行资源管理体制中存在的弊端，造成由省级地勘基金资助的地质勘查项目在“商业跟进”环节严重脱节，从而阻碍了社会资金流入地质勘查领域;c.受我国地勘基金预算管理方式及其他因素影响，导致省级地勘资金在短期内难以将收益转化为再投入资金，从而制约了省级地勘基金的循环周转与可持续发展；d.各省财政对省级地勘基金普遍存在着支持力度不确定、投入规模不确定、没有形成稳定资金投入模式等问题，从而使得省级地勘基金缺乏相对稳定的资金来源。

关键词: 省级地勘基金, 地质找矿重大突破, 保障矿产资源安全, 勘查成果, 投资对象多元化