Taking China Knowledge Network Database (CNKI) as the literature research data platform, the literature related to the study of carbon emissions trading in China from January 1, 2013 to September 1, 2023 are selected, and the authors and keywords are visualized and analyzed by using CiteSpace 6.2.4 software. The results show that from the amount of publications, it is rising year by year, especially from 2021 onwards，from the authors of the literature, there is less communication between the authors and a lack of cooperation，from the keyword co-occurrence and clustering analysis, the hotspot of China's carbon emissions trading research is in how to improve China's carbon emissions trading market，from the keyword emergence, the current research focuses more on the future development of the carbon emissions trading market path to explore the full range of carbon emissions trading. From the keyword emergence, the current research focuses more on the exploration of the future development path of carbon emissions trading market.