Abstract: Coal mine surveying was a very important part in the process of coal mine development and production, its measurement results provided various basis for coal mine development and production, the accuracy of the measurement results would directly affect the safety of coal mine production. Through elaborating the importance of coal mine surveying, it introduced the new techniques for coal mine surveying, and put forward to the solutions of common measurement problems. Finally, it gave some reasonable proposals on how to improve the quality of coal mine surveying work.