Oleic acid(C18∶1)is one of the main fatty acids of double-low rapeseed oil. Reasonable fatty acid composition of high-oleic-acid rapeseed oil is beneficial to human health. Therefore, improving the oleic acid content is an important direction of rapeseed quality breeding. At present, although the breeding of high-oleic-acid rapeseed varieties in China has started, the relevant research progress is slow, and the industrialization of high-oleic-acid rapeseed oil needs to be improved urgently. This paper focused on the high-oleic-acid rapeseed mainly from four aspects: the high-oleic-acid germplasm resources established by physical and chemical methods globally and their genetic models of the high-oleic-acid trait; the control genes and mutant loci identified in high-oleic-acid germplasm; the cultivation of high-oleic-acid varieties in the world and the development trend of high-oleic-acid varieties in China; the shortcomings of the current high-oleic-acid rapeseed varieties and the improvement ways of the future high-oleic-acid rapeseed varieties. This review comprehensively demonstrated the international research results of high-oleic-acid rapeseed in genetics and breeding for breeders, and also provided a reference for further development of high-oleic-acid rapeseed in China.