The western China to Qinghai-Tibet area covers Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet and western Sichuan, where distributes lots of sedimentary basins hosting abundant oilshale resources. The oilshale resources reach to 195.263 billion tons in these areas, about 4.44% of the total in China, the oilshale potential is 193.039 billion tons, 28.82 of the total in China, indicating a big potential in these areas. The genesis of oilshale can be classified as sapropel , humosapropelic and humic, formed in lakes, marshes and lagoons, where the oilshale is quality, most more than 10% in oil-bearing rate. The oilshales are distributed in the upper Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic, becoming younger southwards in oilshale formation ages. This paper, based on a prioritization of exploration targets, selects 9 target areas as most favorable areas, 7 as favorable areas, and 4 as sub-favorable areas.
Mining cities are facing a series of serious issues like massive poor, collective unemployment and deteriorating environment, which makes a fragile social system. This paper illustrates the frangibility of social system, establishes an indexes system model to assess the frangibility in five districts in Fuxin city from resources distribution, population structure, education level, sanitation, social order, social guarantee and logistic construction. The results imply a big difference in social frangibility among the districts, first in Xinqiu district, second in Taiping district and last in Xihe district. The paper discusses the major causes of the frangibility in Fuxin city.