Abstract: Thanks to their advantages like high capacity and excellent tube quality, the continuous-rolling pipe mills have been rapidly developed over the recent decades. The co-authors introduce current situation of the domestic existing continuous-rolling pipe plants, and the R & D achievements relating to the said mills in the 9th FYP period. It is pointed out that it is the developing way to build up size-oriented specialized continuous-rolling pipe plants to meet the market demand with an commercial scale capacity.