The Fuxin basin is a late Mesozoic NNE-trending graben coal-bearing basin. The NNW structural system is considered to be synbasinal and syndepositional structures, which appear exert the most important controlling effects on coal accumulation in the basin. Relatively large WNW-NW-trending faults seem controll the occurrence of three coal-accumulating stages, while WNW-NW-trending anticlines inside the central fault may controll the coal-accumulating centres and districts. The middle and late Neocathaysian structural system is postdepositional structures. The structural domes or short-axis anticlines formed by compounding and ovelapping of the NNE-NE and WNW-NW-trending folds may controlled the opencut mining of coal beds in the basin.