Rice pest,which often resulting in grain losses and the quality decline,is the main limiting factor for rice yield.During the last fifty years chemical pesticides have played an important role in rice pest control.However,large quantities of chemical pesticides utilization in long term caused serious environmental pollution,destruction of ecological balance,while many insects have developed resistance.Genetic engineering is an effective alternative to solve the problem.In recent twenty years great progress has been made in genetic engineering of rice for insect resistant.In this paper the progress in cloning of insect resistant genes and genetic transformation in rice were reviewed.