The incidence of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension (HPH) is increasing. Accumulating evidence suggests that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play an important role in HPH, but the functions and mechanism have yet to be fully elucidated. In this study, we established an HPH rat model with 8 h of hypoxia exposure (10% O2) per day for 21 days. High-throughput sequencing identified 60 differently expressed (DE) lncRNAs, 20 DE miRNAs and 695 DE mRNAs in rat lung tissue. qRT-PCR verified the accuracy of the results. Immune response, inflammatory response, leukocyte migration, cell cycle, cellular response to interleukin-1, IL-17 signalling pathway, cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction and Toll-like receptor signalling pathway were significantly enriched in DE mRNAs. According to the theory of competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) networks, lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA network was constructed by Cytoscape software, including 7 lncRNAs, 16 miRNAs and 144 mRNAs. The results suggested that seven DE lncRNAs (Ly6l, AABR07038849.2, AABR07069008.2, AABR07064873.1, AABR07001382.1, AABR07068161.1 and AABR07060341.2) could serve as molecular sponges of the corresponding miRNAs and play a major role in HPH.