Abstract Marine emerging industry is an important research field of marine science and technology innovation and marine economic development. Since the beginning of the new century, domestic research literature has increased, mainly concentrates on policy guidance, structural distribution, and selective cultivation in the category of regional economy and the comprehensive marine management, while there is a lack of systematic analyses of characteristics of relevant researches on Chinas emerging marine industry from the macro perspective. It is the premise to promote the theoretical development of Chinas marine industry innovation and development to make an objective review of the new marine industries based on existing literature. With the help of the visualization tool of CiteSpace III and Excel, Chinas marine industries research characteristics are analyzed based on documents and data of the last 25 years.
