Abstract:We obtained 849articles of rural agricultural informatization from CSSCI journals on CNKI periodical database from 2000 to 2016. We analyzed the annual, author, institution and Keywordco-occurrence of the literature by CitespaceⅢ, drew the mapping knowledge domains, combined with secondary search reading of articles, to explore rural agricultural informatization research hotspots and tendency in China. It is found that:the number of papers published in rural agricultural informatization was generally on the rise. The authors and institutions were relatively fragmented and attracted much attention from many disciplines. The focus was on the basic theory of rural agricultural informatization, the development and application of rural agricultural information technology, the education informatization of rural farmers, the rural agriculture informatization and the optimization of industrial structure. In the future, the research will focus on the informatization of rural community governance, rural informatization and rural industrial prosperity,the function mining of rural education informatization.