Cover Story：Diagram illustrating the relationship of the consumption of energy resources and important mineral resources to the economic and social development. The discovery of the “S”-shape regularity of the consumption of energy resources and important mineral resources per capita reveals the intrinsic and essential link between the consumption growth of the energy resources and mineral resources and the economic and social development, and puts forward the theory of the limit of human resources consumption growth, which holds that human consumption of energy resources and mineral resources will not cease-lessly increase with the economic and social development, and that, if the unreasonable population growth can be effectively controlled, the consumption or demand of global resources has a limit value. The research achievement made by the research group led by Professor WANG An-jian and WANG Gao-shang, Research Center for Strategy of Global Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, see this special issue. (photo by WANG An-jian)