The success of the US in exploring and recovering shale gas largely stimulates most countrie's interest, such as Canada, Australia, UK, Poland, and China. This paper, based on shale gass definition and values, reviews the advances of the US's shale gas exploration and recovering, and discusses China's situation in shale gas, and presents, under a high dependence upon importing of oil gas, the approaches in learning the experiences and contacting, cooperating with foreign governments and enterprises and institutes, and in establishing a key technical system in shale gas exploration and recovering based on China's geology, and in giving supportive policies.