Abstract:To reveal the research status and trend of pressure vessel in China, the hot issues are sort out. According to the CNKI, 4669 research papers named after “pressure vessel” were published from 2008 to 2017, using hot spot analysis method, and were draw the development trends and the knowledge spectrum of key words about pressure vessel in China by Citespace. China’s pressure-vessel’s researches can be divided into two stages as active growth stage and stable increase stage. Seven research-hotspots are formed, such as boiler and pressure vessel, reactor pressure vessel, pressure vessel, pressure area method, stationary, welding joints, finite element. The design of Pressure vessel in China transfers from design by rule to design by analysis. Research institutions and representatives are mainly concentrated in the relevant research institutes, which were single relatively.