Abstract: In the article, the development tendency of foreign gas-to-liquids technology is described, and the assessment on the positive action of gas-to-liquids technology on dealing with economic storage and transportation of the natural gas (associated gas of oilfield and imported natural gas)produced in remote regions and offshore gas fields has been made. The author gets the idea that the natural gas produced in Talimu Basin can be transported with crude oil and condensate by means of GTL technology to the Eastern China, and analyzes the availability to apply the GTL technology to the handling of imported natural gas, offshore natural gas, coal-to-liquids and their transportation.