Abstract:[Purpose / Significance] The paper aims to identify the core technology and detect the development tendency in wind energy, finding the technological gap between China and developed countries to accelerate China"s wind energy technology innovation. [Method / Process] Taking patent database CNIPR as patent data source and using the social network analysis method, this paper takes a contrastive analysis with collinear network among China, America and Europe. Also, the paper combines threshold and time series, taking an analysis with the collinear network between China and Europe in four stages. [Result / Conclusion] Core technology of China, America and Europe are identified, and the paper predicts that the future technology of wind energy in China will focus on the parts and assemblies of wind energy device and lighting device, while America and Europe will still focus on the wind motor.