Abstract:

Prof. Tu Guangchi, an academician of CAS, predicted in 1973 that “the environmental sciences and life sciences will be  uprising in the 70s of 20 century”, and pointed out that “the mutual infiltration between environmental sciences and geochemistry has produced the environmental geochemistry, as a new interdisciplinary subject”. In the past 40 years, the development of the Environmental Quality Geochemistry has undergone three stages: the “investigationevaluation” stage, the “regionintegration” stage and the “interfacemechanism” stage. The environmental geochemistry focused its research objective on the regional evolution of environment, as well as the environmental impact on health and ecology; it has had remarkable achievements in these studies and it will make more welfare to the mankind in the 21 century.

Key words: environmental quality geochemistry, regional environment, environmental evaluation, environmental interface