Abstract. Hot deformations for the experimental steels were carried out in the temperature range of 900-1200 ºC and the strain rate range 10-3-100 s-1. In this study, the critical condition for dynamic recrystallization (DRX) was determined by a cooperation of the minimum value of -(∂θ/∂σ) and the deviation point of the linear slope of θ-σ curve. From the analysis, it was found that only one slope ratio of critical strain, ε c versus critical stress, σ c appeared in the 9Cr and 10Cr steels , whilst two different slopes in P92 and NS steels due to the augmentation of auxiliary softening effect of the dynamic strain-induced transformation (DSIT) . The results also exhibited that ln(Z) kept an approximate positive linear relationship with ln(ε c ) below the value of 40, but barely changed beyond it. However, the ln(σ c ) value increased continuously with the rise of the ln(Z) value at a smaller growth rate after the value of ln(Z) reached 40 than that of the initial part.