Facility agriculture is a highly effective agricultural production under the artificial controllable environment.It is characterized by strong risk resistance,large input of material and energy,highly con-centrated knowledge and technology,distinct region discrepancy and multiple effects in economy,society and ecology.The facility agriculture can be dated back to the 4th Century BC and has been developing rapidly since the 1970s.It has developed to such a high degree that facility horticulture and intensive pro-duction are of considerable large scale and complete technology,equipment and specification.The develop-ment trend of foreign facility agriculture is as follows:standardization and large-scaling of agricultural fa-cilities,mechanization of agricultural production,automatization,intellectualization and networking of computer monitoring system for environment of agricultural facilities,industrialized agricultural production,etc.In this paper,the connotation and characteristics of facility agriculture were analyzed,the history of foreign facility agriculture was briefly reviewed,and the status quo of foreign facility agriculture was con-cluded.In the end,the development trend of the world facility agriculture was also pointed out.