指出21世纪我国炼油工业要持续发展，国际竞争能力要大力提高，涉及到的原油资源战略、现代化企业管理、行业体制和机制、企业结构调整、人才机制以及科技创新等多方面问题。并就产品质量、深度加工、油化一体化、信息技术和运输燃料替代技术，以及如何提高科技创新力度、加强科技开发等技术发展战略，提出了一些对策和建议。

This paper points out that China's refining industry needs to energetically improve its international competitiveness to realize the continuous development in the new century. It involves many aspects such as crude resource strategy, modern management of enterprises, industry system and mechanism, enterprise structural regulation, human resource mechanism and technical innovation. This paper brings forward some suggestions and countermeasures on product quality, deep upgrading, refining-chemical integration, IT and fuels substitute technology, as well as the development strategy on how to improve technical innovation and to strengthen technology development.