With system dialectics, as the guide, petroleum basin, as the setting, terms of reservoir-forming, as the bases, its key factors, fabric, evolution and relation to environment should be studied.

An interpretation of the scientific conception of new revised edition of System Dialectics is given. The precise rearranged and enlarged text of the new edition is more rational and easy to read.

The formation of the theoretical system of TCM was greatly influenced by ancient Chinese materialism and dialectics.