Abstract: This paper describes fundamental theory study and the status of research on flotation models at home and abroad. It discusses the progress of flotation kinetics from three aspects in practice of mineral processing: firstly introduces the establishment of practical model on flotation kinetics in practice of mineral processing and then describes and compares the fitted model with the practical mineral processing test, secondly introduces how to describe mineral flotation behavior by the research on flotation kinetics, how to evaluate and interpret the value of flotation reagents and reasonability of mineral processing flowsheet, finally introduces the progress of flotation kinetics of flotation cells from the improvement of internal and external environment and optimization design of flotation cells. This paper prospects the future development orientation of flotation kinetics according to the research status.