A refrigerator, including a box body having a rear shell, a compressor compartment disposed below the box body, and a rear cover plate covering the rear side of the compressor compartment, wherein the rear cover plate is adjacently disposed below the rear shell; the rear shell has a rear back plate and a fixing structure bending forwards from the lower end of the rear back plate; the rear cover plate has a cover plate main body and a butt-joint structure bending forwards from the top of the cover plate main body; and clamping mechanisms matching each other for spacing are disposed on the fixing structure and the butt-joint structure. According to the foregoing arrangement, it can be ensured that no vertical gap can be formed between the rear cover plate and the upper side of the rear back plate of the refrigerator.