Abstract: Briefed in the article is the general development situation of the domestic steel tube industry, involving such aspects as the output, the apparent consumption volume, the import& export situations of and the price trend for seamless steel tubes and pipes.Also analyzed are the present major problems as staying with the development of the steel tube industrial circles, and relevant situation as the seamless steel tube-making industry is facing.At present major problems still remind with the domestic steel tube industry, such as excess manufacturing capacity, low industrial concentration level, and particularly, heavy debts of the large-sized state-owned enterprises, high operational costs and poor competitiveness, and moreover, the increasingly-serious trade friction, etc.With the deepening of the supply-side structural reform, China's steel pipe industry has truly entered a high-quality, sustainable development track, and it has a long way to go to develop the country into a steel tube-making giant.