The microstructure of X80 pipeline steel systemically was characterized by optical microscope, scanning electronic microscope, and transmission electron microscope, and studied electrochemical behavior of X80 pipeline steel in Ku'erle simulated soil solution, NS4 solution and Yingtan simulated soil solution by Potentiostat/Galvanostat model 2273. It is shown that the microstructure of X80 pipeline steel is characterized by polygonal ferrite, acicular ferrite, and martensite-austenite (M/A) constituents. There are dislocation cells and sub-grains in a ferrite grain and a lot of dislocation tangled around ferrite grain boundaries. Only active region, and no
active-passive transition region is found in polarization curves of X80 pipeline steel in Ku'erle simulated soil solution, NS4 solution and Yingtan simulated soil solution. Corrosive current density of X80 pipeline steel is the largest in Ku'erle simulated soil solution, and less in NS4 solutions, and the least in Yingtan simulated soil solution. Corrosive current density of X80 pipeline steel in Yingtan simulated soil solution is close to that of in NS4 solutions, but both of them much less than that of in Ku'erle simulated soil solution.