There are no relevant remediation standards to conduct the work for remediation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils in China. Thus

the researching methods for derivation and enactment of remediation criteria and standards for hydrocarbon contaminated soils in foreign countries are of significance for methodological references. In this work

the connotation of remediation criteria/standards for petroleum contaminated soils was briefly expounded from two aspects

namely

the meaning of the remediation criteria/standards and the classification method of petroleum hydrocarbons. Then

the tiered methods from foreign countries were introduced

followed by the summarization of application of risk assessment and their relevant models

the research about the analytical methods and the indicators/surrogates.At last

the general researching methods of remediation criteria/standards for petroleum contaminated soils were concisely concluded

and the further research in this direction was prospected.