Abstract: 【Objective/Meaning】By combing the research network of rural homestead circulation in China, the research content, hot topics and development trends in different periods could be understood, and it would provide references for the future research in this field through the quantitative and qualitative analysis.【Methods/Procedures】Through the method of bibliometrics and the visualized analysis softwares, namely CiteSpace and VOSviewer, and by taking the 451 articles on “rural homestead circulation” collected by China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) from 2000 to 2020 as the sample data, the visual analysis was conducted from the perspectives of the number of articles published annually, the group of authors, institutional cooperation, keyword co-occurrence map and time zone map.【Results/Conclusions】The results showed that the academic circles have paid more and more attention to the field of homestead circulation, the cooperation among the author groups was relatively scattered, different research institutions have not formed a close research group, and the research focused on the willingness, influencing factors and related policies of rural homestead circulation.