With the rising and developing of translational medicine and precision medicine, the demand for the strategic resource of biobank is increasing day by day. In recent years, biobank has been applied to many fields of biomedical research with expanding scale and diversified types at home and abroad. The improvements of quality control and upgradation of information management guarantee the quality of samples in biobank. This paper describes the international development status of biobank, with a view to contribute to the standardized construction of biobank.