Aimed at development features of coalfield structures in China,the author.

In the paper,the important effect and significance of strike-slip faults are discussedon the basis of researchs on coalfield structures.

The main research progresses of coalfield structures in China since the new century includes:(1) the important advances in regional background research of coalfield structures,(2) basin dynamics and tectonics control of coal in the eastern China had been attract.

According to the characteristic of Bouguer gravity and regional gravity anomaly, the authors worked out a plot of structure pattern in the crystalline base of the basin.

the western rifted zone, the central uplifted zone and the eastern depressed zone, and each zone is distinctive in structural framework and has itself source rocks.

In the paper the authors give out the major outcome obtained by using magnetotelluric sounding in the Dongting depression in Hunan Province, and carefully analyse and deduce the regional structural framework, electrical property structure of the depths and the distribution character of high conductivity layers in the earth's crust and the earth's mantle of the Dongting depression in Hunan.

The deep and shallow structural frameworks are quite different in the Qaidam Cenozoic basin according to a comprehensive interpretation of seismic and non-seismic data.

Late Paleozoic tectonic framework and evolution in the Jiabaishan area, Qoltag, eastern Tianshan Mountains, Northwest China.;

Stratigraphic and paleobiogeographic affinities between different tectonic units in northwestern China-With a discussion of the tectonic framework of northwestern China.;

Mesozoic tectonic framework and evolution in the central segment of the intraplate Yanshan orogenic belt;

It controled the structural pattern in Palaeozoic Era.