Abstract: Xi'an Center of China Geological Survey (Abbreviated as Xi'an Center) is a comprehensive regional geological survey institution in Northwest China. Over the past 60 years, it has been established for the needs of national construction and adjusted for the changes of national development needs, making important contributions to the implementation of major national strategies and the progress of geological science and technology in Northwest China. This paper is divided into three stages:start and development, adjustment and expansion, transformation and innovation. It systematically summarizes the main work and major achievements of Xi'an Center in the past 60 years. Facing the new situation, new demands and new challenges, Xi'an Center will adhere to the basic positioning of public welfare, basic geological survey and strategic mineral exploration, adhere to the working positioning of fully supporting the protection of energy, minerals, water and strategic resources, carefully serving the construction of ecological civilization and the work of the natural resource management center, and focus on big needs, based on big geology, investigate big resources, serve big ecology, and do a good job in big support The working idea of achieving great development promotes transformation and innovative development, practices the value concept of taking root in the west, striving for first-class, serving the motherland and serving the people, and proposes to focus on water resources security, energy resources security, ecological security, land security, natural resources management center, development power reform, opening up and cooperation, and improving the level of internationalization, strive to become a world-class new-type regional comprehensive geological survey and research institution, and make new and greater contributions to national and regional economic and social development and ecological civilization construction.