Rapeseed oil with high oleic acid has rich nutrition and is good for health, thus it attracted more and more attention in the world. In this paper,we summarize the functions of high oleic acid rapeseed oil,the genetic characteristics of oleic acid, advances of high oleic acid rapeseed breeding by different methods, such as microspore culture, distant hybridization, mutation and transgenic technology, and the development of high oleic acid in different countries. Then we consider some ways helpful to the development of high oleic acid, such as research on the genetic characteristics of high ole...