Comprehensive analysis and study has been conducted with a total of 752 articles related to outbound tourism from SCI, CSSCI and core journals during 1992 to 2016 as review objects. Firstly, the paper analyzes the development characteristics of China's outbound tourism from two dimensions, i.e. time and space; secondly, it sums up six aspects of the main research contents of China's outbound tourism, namely outbound tourists, market, consumption characteristics, contributions and policies of outbound tourism as well as factors that influence outbound tourism. Finally, it points out the main problems existing in the development of China's outbound tourism market and puts forward the proposal that we should pay close attention to the refined research on the new field of outbound tourism at micro level.