Looking Back and Forward to China's Pipeline Industry

China's pipeline industry will find itself in a high-speed growth period in coming decade. The paper analyzes how important China's eastern pipeline networks are during the coming decade, and puts forward the measures to be taken for safe operation of the pipeline networks: (1)paying a great attention to the inspection on internal/external corrosion of pipeline and CP measurement, (2)working out scientifically the industry standards for pipe replacement and renovation, (3)making a risk analysis and prediction on remaining service life for the pipelines. A scientific analysis and inference are made on the development perspective on various pipelines in China, such as gas pipeline, oil product pipeline, coal slurry pipeline, slurry pipeline, LPG pipeline and submarine pipeline, and it is pointed out that China has the capability of designing, constructing and operating pipelines of many kinds, and suggested that Chinese pipeline companies should participate international competitions, seek cooperations, develop international markets, and make the pipeline industry of China go into the world advanced line.