Abstract: Over the recent decade across the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the rapid development in the domestic steel tube sector, huge achievements have been made in terms of capacity, product mix, increase of export volume as well as equipment and technology, etc. A brief introduction to the general development in the sector since 1998 is given, based on which certain critical problems as occurred following the said development situation, and need immediate salvation are put forward.