Both China and Europe have played the most important role in the InterNational and Global Geochemical Mapping. The Europe Geochemical Baseline Mapping Program was approved in 1996 by the Forum of European Geological Surveys' Directors (FOREGS). The FOREGS atlas was published via internet in 2005. China has not only carried out different scale geochemical mapping programs in China territory but also conducted international cooperation on global and regional scale geochemical mapping projects with developing countries. Different approaches are adopted for both global and regional geochemical mapping by China and Europe. The main differences are in that China sampled uni-medium and Europe sampled multi-media,China used large-scale instruments as a backbone with multi-methods analytical system and Europe only used large-scale instruments analytical system. Multi-media sampling used in Europe has obtained more information of elemental distribution in more natural materials,but it provided less element information because some key elements are not determined such as precious metals:Ag,Au,Ir,Os,Pd,Pt,Rh,Ru,halogen elements: F,Cl,Br,I,dispersion elements:Ge,In,Se,Te,bio-available elements:N,S,B,and other elements:La,Bi,Sc. This difference may cause problems with compiling the whole global geochemical atlas.