To explore the development trends of agricultural mechanization in China,we relied on the database of China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),with"agricultural mechanization"as the theme,to re-trieve academic articles on agricultural mechanization published in Chinese core journals,CSSCI,and CSCD from 2014 to 2023.We applied the Cite Space visualization analysis software for knowledge mapping analysis.The results show that:the researchers in the field of agricultural mechanization have not formed a large-scale cooperative group,most of the authors are independent research;Research institutions in the field of agricul-tural mechanization are mainly scientific research institutes and universities in Beijing,Nanjing,Wuhan and other places;Through the cluster analysis of the hot keywords of agricultural mechanization,four hot research areas of"agricultural machinery","food security","intermediary effect"and"farmers'income increase"are summarized.In the future,China's agricultural mechanization development will focus on three aspects:mech-anization industry chain,machinery intelligence,and the integration of agricultural machinery and agronomy,so as to promote the comprehensive development of agricultural mechanization.