Abstract: The report of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China has put forward the strategy idea that names implementing new development concept and building a modern economic system. The report has also called for people to put forth our effort to greatly accelerate the construction of an industrial system with coordinated development among the real economy, innovation on science and technology, modern finance and human resources. Because the industrial system in China is deeply influenced by modern science and technology such as Internet, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, as well as by the social problems such as food safety and environmental pollution, to build a modern industrial system may be advantageous to fully realize the modern economic system. It is obvious that the modern industrial system is an important content and the basic aspect of the modern economic system in China, and the core industries may shoulder the important mission to realize China’s development strategy in the near future. Then the research on modern industrial system may play an important role on both the industrial theory and the real application. In order to deeply understand the development status on researching modern industrial system in China, we selected the relevant literature from 2007 to 2017 as the analyzed object that has been published by the CSSCI source journals and the Chinese core journals in the database of China National Knowledge Internet (CNKI), but there are non-research literature among them, such as news reports, book reviews and so on. Finally, we got 340 domestic documents in the database of CNKI. Because the quantitative research can be more objectively to reflect the research hotspots and the research status in a certain field, we utilized the CiteSpace software, which is simple and powerful, to draw the knowledge maps, and then we conducted the visual and quantitative analysis on those full literature samples. The knowledge maps were drawn from the perspectives of time distribution, core authors, research institutes, journal distribution, subject types and highly cited papers. Then the maps were utilized to analyze the literature, and the current research topics were to be grasped and the research trends were also to be judged, which may provide a useful reference for the in-depth study of modern industrial system. The main research conclusions in this paper are as follows: (1) The research overview on the modern industrial system: By analyzing the knowledge maps of the time distribution of papers, the core authors and research institutions, the journal types and subject composition, as well as the highly cited papers, we concluded that the study of modern industrial system was started in 2007, which was late but developed rapidly, and the scholars have achieved more valuable research results. Especially after the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the academic has turned its attention back to the research track of the modern industrial system development. However, although many scientific research institutes and researchers have participated to research the modern industrial system, there was a clear lack on cooperation and communication between the scholars and/or the institutions, and the research force in this field was relatively decentralized. Furthermore, there were only a few highly cited papers, and the journals that published these papers were only concentrated in the field of industrial economics, which were obvious to be lack on the cross-disciplinary research among management, sociology and other disciplines. Then the government, universities and scientific research institutions should strengthen their exchanges and cooperation in order to achieve more breakthroughs in this field, and also should contribute to rationally construct a modern economic system. (2) The research topics on the modern industrial system: On the basis of the knowledge map of the co-occurrence keywords, we got the four research topics on the modern industrial system, which are the connotation and characteristics, the formation mechanism, the system construction and the realization path. The construction of modern industrial system as well as the realization path of the modern agricultural system and the advanced manufacturing system was the current research hotspots. Then the scholars may continue to deepen the construction of modern industrial system and explore the initial model of reasonable construction of modern industrial system, and we also should continue to strengthen the research on optimization model of the modern industrial system and the path of transformation and upgrading of those core industries among the system; (3) The research trends on the modern industrial system: According to the knowledge map of the emergent words, we obtained that there were two stages of the domestic research trend of the modern industrial system. That is to say, the primary stage was characterized by studying the important role of the modern industrial system in the process of the economic growth, and the later stage was characterized by exploring the two important issues, which are how to realize the transformation and upgrading of the modern industries and how to drive the new urbanization strategy by relying on a reasonable modern industrial system under the situation of new normal economy. According to the three research results above, we suggested that the research institutions and the authors should strengthen their cooperation and deepen the theoretical achievements on the various research topics in order to push the continuous progress for the construction of the China’s modern economic system, and the suggestions and countermeasures may be helpful for the management and decision-making of the governments and the businesses, so it can provide a thinking support to realize the development objectives of Chinese strategies.

Key words: modern industrial system, knowledge map, research review