Qinshui basin hosts marine-continental facies in the North China Craton, ranks top in coal-bed methane exploration and development in China. This paper, based on its total content of organic carbon (TOC), orgianic maturity, minerals, fissures, porosity, permeability and gas content, concludes that Qinshui basin, although thin in single shale-mud bed of marine-continental facies, hosts a good gas reservoir-forming condition from its high organic maturity at gas generation bloom, especially high content of brittle minerals which can easily form natural fissures and inducing cracks by external forces, favorable for latter extracting. It’s practical to extract shale gas and coal-bed methane together. This paper gives an outlook for Qinshui basin’s shale gas resources.