The rapid development of industrialization and urbanization has led to an increasingly widening gap between urban and rural wealth. In the context of coordinated urban-rural integration, the unhealthy development of urban fringe areas seriously affects the sustainable development process of urban-rural integration and urgently requires the updating and upgrading of transportation, industry and other supporting facilities to adapt to the conditions of the new era of urban-rural integration development. The rational development of urban fringe areas is of great significance for alleviating the contradiction between urban and rural dual structures. Aiming to systematically explore the development history, current situation, challenges and opportunities of urban fringe areas, using a literature quantitative method, CiteSpace was employed to conduct a visualization analysis of the research field of urban fringe areas in the past decade. revealing The hotspots and associated fields in this area of research was revealed, as well as the current focus and development direction. and reasonable prospects was proposed. Comprehensive literature analysis shows that urban fringe areas have shifted from initially single economic development thinking to diversified and coordinated multi-party development. At the same time, the development planning of urban fringe areas should actively promote the application of smart technology to promote coordinated progress in urban-rural integration and achieve sustainable development of diversified subjects.