Continuous development is the theme of our age and it is taken as an ideal form of national economical development by all the countries. The exploration engineering (rock & soil drilling and tunneling), as a part of the geological work that is the commander of an advance vanguard of national economical construction, has inseparable relations with continuous development. This article briefly discussed the relationship of exploration engineering (rock & soil drilling and tunneling) with continuous development and the continuous development of the technique itself.