The invention provides a carbapenemase-producing strain rapid detection method and kit, and an application of the kit. The rapid detection method includes the steps: carrying out common incubation ofimipenem with a to-be-tested bacterial lawn to prepare an MH agar culture medium containing bromcresol purple and acid-producing bacteria, pasting imipenem paper after incubation with the to-be-testedbacterial lawn on the MH agar culture medium containing the bromocresol purple and the acid-producing bacteria, incubating for 3.5-4.5 h, and determining whether the to-be-tested strain is a carbapenemase-producing strain directly through a fact whether bromocresol purple is discolored. The detection method has the advantages of simple operation, fast analysis, wide application range, high accuracy and specificity, and easy interpretation of the results. At the same time, the invention also provides the detection kit established based on the rapid detection method; the kit has important significance for early discovery of the carbapenemase-producing strain and adopting of effective measures, nosocomial infection control and clinical epidemiological detection, and has good application prospects.