The invention provides an air-cooled refrigerator which comprises a refrigerator body, a
water discharge pipeline, a
controlled atmosphere membrane component and an air extracting pump, wherein a storing space and a cooling space are formed in the refrigerator body; a storage container is arranged in the storing space; a
controlled atmosphere fresh-keeping space is formed in the storage container; the
water discharge pipeline is mounted on the refrigerator body, communicated with the cooling space and used for discharging water dropped down from an
evaporator out of the cooling space; the
controlled atmosphere membrane component is configured to enable more
oxygen, relative to
nitrogen, in the air flow of the around space permeates a controlled
atmosphere membrane to enter an
oxygen-enriched gas collecting cavity; the air extracting pump is used for extracting gas permeating the
oxygen-enriched gas collecting cavity to be discharged out of the storage container through an air extracting pipeline and an air exhaust pipeline; the air exhaust pipeline is configured to enable gas permeating the oxygen-enriched gas collecting cavity to carry out heat exchange with the
water discharge pipeline directly or indirectly after flowing out of the air extracting pump. According to the air-cooled refrigerator, the energy of gas discharged through the air extracting pump is utilized to dissolve residual ice at the inlet of the water
discharge pipeline due to that the temperature of the gas is higher than that at the inlet of the water
discharge pipeline, so that the water
discharge pipeline is prevented from being blocked, and the energy is fully utilized.