Shelling is an essential part of walnut postharvest processing and plays an important role in the development of walnut industry in China. At present, in most areas of China, walnut harvesting was mainly based on primary processing, timeconsuming and laborious, with low mechanization degree, and the problems of low kernel exposure rate and high breakage rate in the shelling link and so on, which had become a key problem affecting the rapid development of walnut industry. Based on the analysis of 6 typical walnut shelling equipments structure, shelling principle, advantages or disadvantages, and so on, this paper expounded the development situation of walnut shelling equipment at home and abroad at present. This paper summed up the problems of walnut shelling equipment in China and it included single function, high operation cost, performance instability, low efficiency, poor universality, low utilization rate and so on. Finally this paper put forward to some relative measures and suggestions of our country in future. We should optimize and improve the key technology and structure, strengthen the application research of new technology, new theory and new method of walnut shelling and develop large walnut shelling equipment, promote the processing capacity of enterprises.