In recent years, the natural gas hydrate as a new type of high efficiency, energy saving, environmental protection energy was praised by the world's energy industry, and its potential value could not be ignored. The study of gas hydrate was integrated in different countries of the world history, the present research situation and prospect analysis. In view of the natural gas hydrate in China started to be late and a series of actual situation, a set of research strategies suitable for the current development of our country was put forward, and some problems in the process of the actual mining were introduced.