To provide a method and equipment for manufacturing a hot-rolled steel strip which enable a hot-rolled steel strip having superfine ferritic structure to be manufactured.

By the method for manufacturing the hot-rolled steel strip, rolling is performed in the hot finish rolling of a steel strip using a finishing mill composed of a plurality of rolling stands by setting each draft at one rolling stand or two or more adjacent rolling stands including the final rolling stand of the finishing mill to be ≥ 40% and also shape straightening is applied to the hot-rolled steel strip with levelers arranged on the outlet side of each rolling stand which performs rolling with a draft of 40% or more.