This paper evaluates the social benefits of shale gas and coal-bed methane as China’s unconventional oil-gas resources, and expands their uses and social influence, as focused on their comprehensive social benefits and projects-benefit scales on local society and country from some aspects, influence on nation’s energy structure and security, coal mine safety level improvement, and people’s living standard.

There are some issues of mining property trading market existing in governmental management, mining property transfer, broke units, trading platforms, and reform in geological exploration. This paper analyzes these issues and presents some suggestions.