Abstract: Since the launch of China's reform and opening-up policy, the economic system transformation and the high-tech industrial revolution have a remarkable impact on China's economy and society, leading to a huge shift of technical economics studies. Due to significant interdisciplinary feature, the existing researches in the field are scattered. Building on scientometric and visualization, the study aims to review the evolution and development of China’s technical economics research and discuss future tendency by using CiteSpace software. Firstly, based on literature review, the study sorts out the evolution stages and corresponding features of each period. Then, it collects the literature on the subject of technical economics over the period 1959-2018 and analyzes keyword co-occurrence network and major clusters to find out the research hotspots and the process of knowledge evolution. Finally, this study provides future research direction of technical economics.