Development Status and Tendency of Technology and Equipment for Fully Mechanized Coal Mining in China

From the fully mechanized coal mining in the medium thick seam,the thin seam mining and the shortwall mechanized mining,the paper in detail stated the development status of the fully mechanized coal mining technology and equipment in China and introduced the new breakthrough on the key technology and equipment.The paper analyzed the gap existed between the fully mechanized mining equipment made in China and the overseas products.From the improvement of the automation degree and the key parts reliability,the paper provided the development tendency of the fully mechanized coal mining technology.