Cover Story：SinoProbe scientific drilling project site in Tengchong, Yunnan Province. The special program SinoProbe has completed 6000 km deep seismic reflection profiling and established electromagnetic parameter network and geochemical baseline network. Important discoveries were made in six scientific drill holes, and three-dimensional detection was realized in ore concentration areas. Rapid progress was made in such aspects as ground stress monitoring in key areas, dynamics simulation of lithosphere, studies of continental crust structure and evolution and design and development of detec-tion instruments and equipment. All these achieve-ments mark the transition of China from a big country of geoscience to a powerful country of geo-science. The research achievement led by Professor DONG Shu-wen and Academician LI Ting-dong, CAGS, was awarded ‘Special Progress” in “Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progresses of CAGS in 2012”. For details, see page 7-23 of this issue (Photo by ZHANG Xiao-xi)
