The invention relates to a method for producing a hot rolled steel coil. The method comprises the following steps of: 1) designing components, pretreating molten iron, smelting in a converter, switching between nitrogen and argon, and performing tapping to obtain molten steel; 2) performing continuous casting on the molten steel to obtain a plate blank, controlling tundish molten steel amount to be between 8t and 15t and liquid level to be between 200mm and 350mm when a continuous casting tundish stops pouring, and pouring under protection in the entire process, wherein the length of an inserted part of a long nozzle is between 300mm and 400mm; 3) heating the plate blank; and 4) finally rolling the heated plate blank and winding to obtain the hot rolled steel coil. In the method, a thermo mechanical control process (TMCP) and a relaxation-precipitation-control (RPC) rolling process are adopted, and C content and Mn content are greatly reduced by micro niobium treatment, so that production cost is reduced; the Q345D hot rolled steel coil produced by the method has high plasticity and toughness, and the elongation rate of the hot rolled steel coil is improved by more than 8 percent; meanwhile, the welding properties of materials are improved, and high surface quality of a continuous casting blank is guaranteed.