Abstract: During the 30 years the development of seismogeology is closely associated with the establishment of New China and the upsurge in its economic construction. At the beginning of construction of our country seismogeological works were mainly in determining the stability of the engineering construction sites and evaluating the seismic activities. As time went on, 1966 Xingtai earthquake promoted the seismogeological researches to a new stage. The results obtained from the seismogeological works in the prediction, origin and zonation of seismicities are encouraging.This article makes an attempt to discuss the implication of seismogeology and its position and role in long-and short-term earthquake predictions and earthquake resistant works. Furthermore, the principal topics of seismogeology studies recently in China may be summarized as follows: 1) seismotectonics, 2) relation of the genetic mechanism of a strong shock and its accompanied phenomena to the geological conditions, 3) regional earth's stress field and intraplate dynamics of Chinese continent, 4) geology of seismic disaster and of induced earthquakes.Finally, the theoretical significance of seismogeology in new geoscience is pointed out and some suggestions for developing seismogeology in China are also proposed herein.

摘要： 我国是一个多地震的国家。历史地震记载悠久而丰富,反映了前人对自然现象敏锐而细致的观察,其中还包含了不少朴素辩证法或唯物观的推测。这份可贵遗产是一个尚待进一步发掘和利用的宝库。但是,终究由于历史条件的限制,它们主要是对现象的片断记录和灾害的宏观描述,而较少上升到理性的认识和科学的分析。