The new definition of industrial design released in 2015 clarifies the new connotation and new characteristics of the development of industrial design. This paper aims to analyze the development and changes of China's industrial design research in the past six years after the emergence of the new definition. Using the method of bibliometrics, with the help of CiteSpace software, this paper drew the knowledge map of 562 industrial design related documents in CNKI Chinese journal database from 2016 to 2021. From the perspectives of research institutions, authors and