Abstract: <SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体">With the increasing depletion of fossil energy,hydrogen energy has become a new energy source,which can solve the current energy crisis.There are lots of methods for producing hydrogen.Because hydrogen storage capacity of metal hydride has absolute predominance compared with the other materials,the technology of hydrogen production from metal hydride has been developed rapidly,and sodium borohydride is just a typical metal hydride.As a safe and convenient way of hydrogen production,sodium borohydride hydrolysis technology of hydrogen production has become one of the hotspots in researching hydrogen sources for current fuel cells.Principles and advantages of this hydrogen supply technology were introduced.Factors that influence the rate of hydrogen production were summarized.Moreover,some examples of the equipment for this method were given.Lastly,the problems,application and development prospect of this method were pointed out.</SPAN>