Traditional coatings based on thermosetting materials, are difficult to repair once damaged and failed, which will bring serious risks to the production safety of equipment. And the frequent maintenance of coating also brings a lot of economic losses. With the development of science and technology, bionic self-healing coating, as a new intelligent material, has become one of the research hotspots in the field of materials in recent years. The research progress of intrinsic self-healing anticorrosive coatings was reviewed. According to the self-healing mechanism, self-healing materials can be divided into two types: external aid type and intrinsic type. External type includes microcapsule and microvascular type, intrinsic type includes Diels-Alder reaction, reversible disulfide bond, transesterification, hydrogen bond, host-guest interaction and so on. The types of intrinsic self-healing coating materials based on reversible dynamic covalent bond and reversible non-covalent bond self-healing, research status and existing problems were discussed. The applications of self-repairing coating in the fields of anti-corrosion, self-cleaning and electric conduction were described. The research direction and development prospect of self-repairing coating were also prospected.