The exciton binding energy of ZnO up to 60 meV enables its excitons to exist stably at room temperature or even higher. This characteristic allows exciton-polariton devices based on ZnO strong coupled microcavities to overcome the low-temperature experimental limitations of traditional semiconductors， making ZnO a favored material for exciton-polariton research in the past decade. This paper introduces several semiconductor microcavity structures of ZnO and focuses on recent reports about phenomena related to ZnO strong coupled microcavities and exciton-polaritons， including polariton lasing， parametric scattering， and quantum states control. The future research direction is also prospected.

zinc oxide;exciton-polariton;optical microcavity;Bose-Einstein condensation