随着各大石油公司对深水油气资源勘探开发投入的不断增加，水下生产系统得到越来越多的应用。水下生产系统灵活性强，可以适应不同的油气田开发方案。在总结分析目前水下生产系统相关技术现状的基础上，指出了未来水下生产系统发展的方向，同时结合我国南海特有的海况和地质条件及深水油气田开发现状，给出了水下生产系统在应用中的困难与挑战及相应的应对措施，对于未来水下生产系统的应用有一定的参考意义。

With remarkable investment into deep water block exploration，subsea production systems are accepted as a mature technology and becoming increasingly employed to develop offshore oil and gas field，especially deep water ones，due to its flexibility and advantages to enhance field recovery. Subsea production system technologies have been developed rapidly and give some new trends. On the general introduction of subsea production system，new trends are given in this paper，furthermore based on the summary of current status of offshore field development and special characteristics of South China Sea，challenges are presented when considering its application in deep water field development in South China Sea. Suggestions are also made to address this situation as well.