Due to the obvious defects in hydrogen storage density, energy consumption and the relative infrastructure construction, the existing hydrogen storage technology is difficult to meet the commercial needs of fuel cell technology. The on site hydrogen production technology has attracted the abroad attentions,with the advantages of high hydrogen production rate, wide application field, perfect infrastructure, good safety and low cost, the hydrogen production technology of diesel reforming can be widely applied in automobile, ship, distributed power generation and other civil fields as well as submarine, warship and other military fields, thus has become one of hot-spots worth studying. In this paper, the diesel reforming for hydrogen production technologies are introduced and classified, the reaction mechanisms of steam reforming, partial oxidation and autothermal reforming are specified, and a comparative analysis of the positive and negative aspects of the three diesel reforming technology are carried out. On this basis, the research progress of the three diesel reforming technology are summarized. Overall, the steam reforming technology has the highest hydrogen concentration and higher system weight, which is more suitable for fixed hydrogen production. Due to the compact structure and the moderate hydrogen concentration of the product, the autothermal reforming technology is considered more suitable for automobile and other mobile hydrogen production field. By comparison, because of lower H2/CO ratio of the product, higher reaction temperature which prone to coking reaction, the applications of partial oxidation technology are relatively limited.