Abstract:Shandong Land and Resources is an academic journal (monthly) sponsored by Shandong Department of Land and Resources under the auspices of Shandong Institute of Geological Sciences. It is published both at home and abroad. Its was named "Shandong geology", and changed its name to "Shandong Land and Resources" in 2003. Major tasks of this journal is to report the latest achievements of geological survey, mineral exploration, development, utilization and protection of mineral resources, land resources and management, mapping and geographic information. Publication of "Shandong land and resources" (original "Shandong geology") started in 1985. It has been 30 years from start publication of this journal. Review of the founding background and development process of publication is actually a geology, science and technology development history of geological work in Shandong province and the geology, land and surveying and mapping work after the establishment of Shandong Department of Land and Resources. In this paper, development and history of the journal of "Shandong Land and Resources"( original "Shandong geology") in 30 years have been introduced in detail. Through the development in 30 years, the journal of "Shandong Land and Resources" has grown into a distinctive academic science and technology journal. In the future, we should continue to pay attention to the essence of academic journals, adhere to the concept of learning and innovation oriented paper evaluation, establish a new editorial board formed by leading experts as soon as possible, increase published number of academic papers which reported important academic achievements and important progress, and strengthen soliciting contributions and editorial force. Thus, the citation rate and the journal impact factors can be significantly improved, the core competence of the journal can be enhanced, science and technology personnels can be cultivated, and the development of geoscience, land, surveying and mapping work in Shandong province can be promoted.