This paper aims to understand the current development situation of sustainable design in China.Accord-ing to the research status and hot spots of sustainable design,the development trend of sustainable design in the future is explored.Using CiteSpace software,1329 documents related to sustainable design in CNKI Chinese jour-nal database from 2013 to 2023 were visualized with knowledge gragh,and the research trend of sustainable de-sign in China in the past 10 years was analyzed from four aspects of publication volume,author,publication or-ganization and keywords.The number of publications of sustainable design is on the rise;the author cooperation is mainly based on the team,forming the cooperation group.The research institutions lack external cooperation;Research institutes for sustainable design are concentrated in universities of science and technology;the keywords of sustainable design have limitations,showing no comprehensive research hotspot and direction;At present,there is a phenomenon that the theoretical research and practice of sustainable design are not closely related.The devel-opment trend is forecasted from four aspects:intelligentialization of research method,diversification of research process,perfection of research teaching and localization of research path,in order to provide a reference for the future sustainable design research.