In raining industry developed countries mining mechanization in narrow vein mines was introduced widespreadly. Practice indicates that mining mechanization has a key role to play in inereasing mine productivity and economical gains. However, for various reasono mining mechanization in China's narrow vein mines is only at the start and even before that in some mines, therefore there is a big gap in terms of productivity and profitability by compareison with those of developed countries. The paper is aimed to identify the shortcomings and problems with China's mines on the basis of external development tendeney. Some proposals and recommendations for promoting mechanization are given, which as the authors hoped, will probably draw attention from those concerned.