diff --git a/mmocr/models/textrecog/backbones/__init__.py b/mmocr/models/textrecog/backbones/__init__.py
index e9b68c38..09d8ad32 100644
--- a/mmocr/models/textrecog/backbones/__init__.py
+++ b/mmocr/models/textrecog/backbones/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # Copyright (c) OpenMMLab. All rights reserved.
+from .mobilenet_v2 import MobileNetV2
 from .nrtr_modality_transformer import NRTRModalityTransform
 from .resnet import ResNet
 from .resnet31_ocr import ResNet31OCR
@@ -8,5 +9,5 @@ from .very_deep_vgg import VeryDeepVgg
 
 __all__ = [
     'ResNet31OCR', 'VeryDeepVgg', 'NRTRModalityTransform', 'ShallowCNN',
-    'ResNetABI', 'ResNet'
+    'ResNetABI', 'ResNet', 'MobileNetV2'
 ]
diff --git a/mmocr/models/textrecog/backbones/mobilenet_v2.py b/mmocr/models/textrecog/backbones/mobilenet_v2.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ec0a02b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mmocr/models/textrecog/backbones/mobilenet_v2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Copyright (c) OpenMMLab. All rights reserved.
+from typing import List
+
+import torch.nn as nn
+from mmdet.models.backbones import MobileNetV2 as MMDet_MobileNetV2
+from torch import Tensor
+
+from mmocr.registry import MODELS
+
+
+@MODELS.register_module()
+class MobileNetV2(MMDet_MobileNetV2):
+    """See mmdet.models.backbones.MobileNetV2 for details.
+
+    Args:
+        pooling_layers (list): List of indices of pooling layers.
+    """
+    # Parameters to build layers. 4 parameters are needed to construct a
+    # layer, from left to right: expand_ratio, channel, num_blocks, stride.
+    arch_settings = [[1, 16, 1, 1], [6, 24, 2, 2], [6, 32, 3, 1],
+                     [6, 64, 4, 1], [6, 96, 3, 1], [6, 160, 3, 1],
+                     [6, 320, 1, 1]]
+
+    def __init__(self, pooling_layers: List = [3, 4, 5]) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.pooling = nn.MaxPool2d((2, 2), (2, 1), (0, 1))
+        self.pooling_layers = pooling_layers
+
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+        """Forward function."""
+
+        x = self.conv1(x)
+        for i, layer_name in enumerate(self.layers):
+            layer = getattr(self, layer_name)
+            x = layer(x)
+            if i in self.pooling_layers:
+                x = self.pooling(x)
+
+        return x
diff --git a/tests/test_models/test_textrecog/test_backbones/test_mobilenet_v2.py b/tests/test_models/test_textrecog/test_backbones/test_mobilenet_v2.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7f55ef44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_models/test_textrecog/test_backbones/test_mobilenet_v2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Copyright (c) OpenMMLab. All rights reserved.
+from unittest import TestCase
+
+import torch
+
+from mmocr.models.textrecog.backbones import MobileNetV2
+
+
+class TestMobileNetV2(TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self) -> None:
+        self.img = torch.rand(1, 3, 32, 160)
+
+    def test_mobilenetv2(self):
+        mobilenet_v2 = MobileNetV2()
+        self.assertEqual(
+            mobilenet_v2(self.img).shape, torch.Size([1, 1280, 1, 43]))