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We implemented the pure shear wave reverse time migration algorithm, and adopted the compact difference scheme to suppress the numerical dispersion in order to adapt to the low-velocity characteristics of the shear wave. The depth domain pre-stack migration practice was performed for P-wave and SH shear wave seismic data in the Sanhu area of the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai Province of China. An eighth-order finite difference scheme was used for P-wave RTM on a variable grid, and a sixth-order CCD was used for SH shear wave RTM on a regular grid. The results showed that the SH shear wave results have obvious imaging advantages compared with the P-wave results in the gas-cloud region, which verified the accuracy of the SH shear wave RTM algorithm and demonstrated great potential in seismic imaging application.