Gold is one of the most importmant strategic mineral resources in China with its rich minereal resources. In resent years, significant progress was made on the process of gold resources exploration. New discoveries of large and super large gold deposits were made and there have also been important expansions in the main mining regions. Gold deposits in China are classified into the granite-greenstone formation related gold deposit, the sedimentary formation related gold deposit (including the Carlin type and the metamorphosed clastic rock related vein gold deposit), the volcanic rock gold deposits (including the continental and marine types), the intrusion related gold deposit (including the porphyry type and the inner intrusion and contact zone related gold deposit), the hypergenesis related gold deposits (including fracture zone-altered rock gold deposit, placer gold deposit, gossan type gold deposit and soil type gold deposit).Statistics precise chronology data of gold deposits indicate that there occurred 5 periods of gold-mineralization in geological history of China. They are Late Archaean to Early Proterozoic, Meso-Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. Gold deposits in China were mainly formed in the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic. On the studies of the spatial-temporal distribution characteristics of gold deposits, 53 Ⅲ-level gold-forming belt were divided in China. The metallogenic regularity of gold deposits was preliminarily summarized, and 71 gold ore-forming series were divided for China. Generally, great potentials exist in gold exploration in China.