By combing the literature on policy pilot since the 18th CPC National Congress, Cite Space software is used to draw it into a knowledge map and analyze it, to discuss the hot spots and development trends of China's policy pilot research. The results show that the number of papers published in policy pilot studies is on the rise, and the research hotspots mainly focus on the occurrence process of policy pilot, the central-local relationship in policy pilot, the knowledge production in policy pilot, and the innovation diffusion in policy pilot. Based on this, it points out the shortcomings of the existing research, and provides reference for the future research of the policy pilot.