Since the 19 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,the Rural Revitalization has been proposed and has become a hot topic of theoretical research with a large number of research results. A comprehensive review of the research results in the field of rural revitalization is of great significance for improving the practical guidance and reference value of theoretical research and promoting the comprehensive implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. Therefore, visual analysis of cited references and keywords of 263 literatures on rural revitalization research in CSSCI database from 2017 to 2018 was carried out by using CiteSpace software to extract core literatures, frontier topics and research hotspots on rural revitalization, so as to grasp the overall context of the current rural revitalization studies and point the way for future rural revitalization researches.