Abstract: Reverse supply chain is a new strategy of realizing the sustainable development and improving the market competition ability in manufacturing industry. The extensive connotation of reverse supply chain is analyzed, which includes the basic concept, route, the open loop and close loop specialty, character, signification and stratagem connotation of the reverse supply chain. On the basis of that, the collectivity technique of reverse supply chain is analyzed, which is mainly including the integration technology, the enabling technology, the basic technology and the supporting technology. Especially, the great attention is paid to network design technology, the storage technology, and the production plan and dispatching technology. At last, the research tendency of reverse supply chain is discussed. All that can offer the theory and method to the formation of the theoretical architecture of the reverse supply chain system, and the enterprise application of the reverse supply chain.

Key words: Extensive connottion, Research tendency, Reverse supply chain, State of art