With Western Hubei, Fuling, Chongqing and Changning-Weiyuanbeing the three pillars of the shale gas resources,China’s shale gas breakthroughs from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the middle and lower reaches.The Yangtze River Economic Belt is expected to form a new pattern of energy exploration and development.

　　On Jan. 22nd,Reporters learned from the National Geological Survey Conference in 2019 that the China Geological Survey organized to fight a uphill battle of scientific and technological survey of shale gas to build a new pattern of energy development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and made some strategic breakthroughs in Western Hubei. High-yielding shale gas flow has been obtained ingeological formation systems of Sinian, Cambrian and Silurian in Western Hubei. At present, great breakthroughs or progress have been successively made in Zunyi,Guizhou Province,Yichang, Hubei Province and Xuancheng,Anhui Province while two shale gas resource bases, Zheng'an, Guizhou Province and Yichang, Hubei Province,have been initially formed. It’s estimated that the geological resource quantity of shale gas in Western Hubei reaches 11.68 trillion cubic meters, which has the basis of annual production capacity of 10 billion cubic meters. (Reporter: Wang Libin)