Analysis of research hotspots and trends of China’s industrial transfer based on CiteSpace

Industrial transfer is an important way to promote regional coordinated development. With the scale enlargement of domestic industrial transfer gradually, the research on industrial transfer has important practical significance. The knowledge map structure of current papers related to industrial transfer in CNKI database was visually analyzed by using CiteSpace. The results showed that: Since 1992, China’s research on industrial transfer had experienced three stages, i.e. slow growth period, rapid growth period and bottleneck period. As a multidisciplinary field, research authors and institutions had not yet established extensive cooperative relations. The research on industrial transfer mainly focused on four themes of transfer industry, transfer model, transfer region and transfer effect, which were either qualitative description or quantitative analysis. The regional industrial transfer in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Yangtze River economic zone and the region along “one belt, one road”, as well as the relationship between environmental regulations, environmental pollution and industrial transfer had been the focus of scholars in recent years. Future research should widen the research fields and objects, while further perfect the quantitative analysis framework system.