The present invention provides a rabies virus CTN strain whole genome cDNA infectious clone, as well as a method of using reverse genetics technology to save the active rabies virus. The present inventive method includes: using the single restriction enzyme sites in the CTN strain of rabies virus full-length genome to divide the full-length virus into four segments to amplify, simultaneously using the green fluorescent protein gene to substitute 423bp base at the pseudo-gene point, cloning in the pVAX-R expression vector, to construct a recombinant full-length plasmid of the virus genome; performing PCR amplification of nucleoprotein, phosphoprotein, glycoprotein and transcription large protein gene sequence of the CTN strain of the rabies virus, and cloning the amplified fragment into a vector pVAX1, to constitute four auxiliary plasmids in the reverse heredity system; and then using the five plasmids to jointly transfect cells, to rescue the rabies virus. The present invention successfully saves the rabies virus, and has a great significance in the study of the pathogenic mechanism of rabies virus, development of new vaccines, viral vectors and the like areas.