Progress and Prospect of Urban Geological Survey in China

Urban geological is an important basis of city planning and construction in the whole process of city management. It is of great practical and strategic significance to launch the urban geological survey for the promotion of new urbanization and new era ecology construction. In this paper, according to the stage of the city development, urban geological survey has been divided into the four stages:special geological survey in the initial stage of urbanization, hydro-engineering-environmental geological survey in the expansion stage of urbanization, integrated geological survey in the rapid development stage of urbanization, multi-factors urban geological survey in the quality improvement stage of urbanization. After reviewing the urban special geological survey and hydro-engineering-environmental geological survey in China, the main outcomes, characteristics, and the progress of integrated urban geological survey and multi-factors urban geological survey have been summarized in this paper, the progress of the contemporary urban geological has been summed up, the existing problems of the new era urban geological survey have been sorted out, and the harmonious coexistence between human and nature, urban-rural integration, livable city, civilized city and smart city have been taken as the objects, and the prospective for the urban geological survey has been made from the aspects of updating the idea, system reform, theory and disciplinary construction, methodology innovation, the extension of work contents and service products.