Prospects for Developments and Retrospects for Oil/gas Exploratory Results in the East China Sea

This paper looks back on the oil/gas exploratory results in the late 20th century,looks forward to the future development of oil/gas in the early 21th century,and points out that oil/gas developments in the East China Sea Shelf Basin are considered as one of the six key development areas in a few years.Oil/gas developments in the East China Sea have now entered a good stage with development programs in the upper reaches and ultilizing plan in the down reaches.