The hydrate-based technology for transporting natural gas involves 3 major steps, e.g. the rapid synthesis, the safe transportation and the high efficiency decomposition of gas hydrates. The research on the rapid synthesis of gas hydrate has made great achievements mainly in optimizing the suitable chemical additives for different experimental conditions through analyzing the effects of various chemical additives on the synthesis of gas hydrate, and in improving the gas hydrate synthesis efficiency of the stirring, water spraying and bubbling processes through developing the new gas hydrate synthesis devices and methods. The safe transportation of gas hydrate is realized by storing gas hydrate into the independent gas hydrate storage units nowadays as opposed to storing gas hydrate directly in the cabin of the carrier ship in the early research stage, and various types of independent gas hydrate storage devices have been developed, providing convenience for loading, unloading and regasifying the gas hydrates. Meanwhile, the economic feasibility of the hydrate-based technology has also been preliminarily explored. The comparison analysis of the estimated transportation costs for the gas hydrate-based transportation technology and the currently used natural gas transportation technologies indicates that the hydrate-based technology has economic feasibility when used for natural gas transportation. In addition, the transportation of gas hydrate does not require extremely high pressure and low temperature since gas hydrate can keep stable in a rather wide temperature and pressure range, resulting in the security advantage of this technology. Therefore, the hydrate-based technology has a bright application prospect, which is worth enough attention.