Oilseed rape is an important oil crop in China. The sown area is about 67 million hectares and about 4.5 million tons of rapeseed oil is produced every year, which account for about 19.7% of total food oil consumption in China. Compared with developed countries, the problems in rapeseed industry of China are low yield and poor quality of rapeseed, and about 5 million tons of rapeseed is annually imported. The sequencing of oilseed rape genome has promoted the research on its breeding. According to the searching record of Web of Science, about total 728 articles related to rapeseed breeding was published in SCI/SCIE journals. Of 728 articles, 181 and 62 were independently completed by Chinese scientists and jointly done by Chinese and their cooperators from other countries, respectively, which account for 33.38% of the total published paper in the world. However, we lack high impact paper. The achievements in 2017 mainly focused on rapeseed oil content and quality, rapeseed yield, genome domestication, male sterility, abiotic