Main battle tanks will still be one of the principal weapons used in army operations in the 21 st century. Up to now, the general concept on the next generation of tank has not been obvious and also there are much difficulty for all people to develop the firepower of tank. Neverthless, both today's world situation and the setup of the arms rivalry from the military powers do bring about an appropriate condition on which the basic technology of the next generation of tank weapons will be formed and developed. Confronting with such a challenge. China should try its best to find and make a new breakthrough in the field of tank attack-defence confrontation and to strengthen the basic research of firepower technology and the advanced research of design in structure so as to lay a foundation for the research and manufacture of the next generation of tank with new features of firepower.