Abstract: The new era will realize the goal of "two hundred years", i.e., building beautiful China, safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, implementing major national strategies and accelerating the construction of innovative countries. In this era, new goals and new requirements are proposed for geological survey work. It is necessary to provide adequate support services in resource security, ecological maintenance, and disaster prevention and mitigation. In the present world, the world geological survey has undergone historic and connotative changes, building a harmonious relationship between people and land has become the main direction of geological survey, the earth system science has become the core theory and method, technological innovation has become the key driving force for geological survey, and the new generation of information technology is comprehensively reshaping the geological survey. To do a good job in the geological survey of the new era, we should aim at the national demand, adjust the structure of geological survey, promote the profound transformation of the geological survey work, and grasp the strategic geological survey technology, thus effectively supporting the solution of major resource and environmental problems.