Abstract: With 316 core literatures on the research topic of high-quality development of rural industry in the CNKI database from 2018 to March 2024, we used bibliometrics and drew a knowledge map with the help of CiteSpace software to analyze the evolution of the field of highquality development of China’s rural industry in terms of evolutionary lineage, hot content, and cutting-edge trends. The results show that: ① the research on the high-quality development of rural industry can be roughly divided into two time stages, namely, exploring the beginning and rapid growth, and the core authors and institutions are relatively discrete, and significant research cooperation has not yet been formed. ② From the point of view of research hotspots, four thematic clusters have been formed for the high-quality development of rural industries, namely, “research on the background of the times”, “research on objects and regions”, “research on measurement and evaluation” and “research on realization paths”. ③ “Green”“Characteristic”“Digital”“Cultural”“Integration”“Specific Functional Area” is the frontier direction of this research field. ④ The follow-up research should strengthen the communication and cooperation among multiple disciplines and basic theory research; innovate the quantitative research of the integration of multidisciplinary methods; and insist that the research theme comes from the practice to the practice.