With the increasingly resting cell rate and resting cell products,production of resting cell fermentation had been a research topic due to cells can't be propagated in resting cell culture system and thus can be converted to resting state.There are a variety of enzyme systems at work.Present research achievements,crafts advantages,culture systems and resting cell of metabolic processes were reviewed in this article,which also referred to unsolved problems in this field so far and the orient of development in future.