This article reviews the research results of zinc-rich coatings prepared by modified zinc powder in recent years,and briefly introduces the anti-corrosion mechanism of zinc-rich coatings,focusing on physical coating modification,chemical modification,intercalation modification and rare earth soaking,etc,the modification methods are summarized.The effect of adding corrosion inhibitors,graphene and other fillers on the anticorrosive performance of zinc-rich anticorrosive coatings is described.Finally,the main problems in the preparation of zinc-rich coatings from modified zinc powder are analyze...