We explored the research trends of ecosystem services in China in order to provide academic guidance for further promoting development. Based on the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) database,bibliometrics was used to quantitatively analyze the historical advances of ecosystem services in the past 30 years. We documented the association of a keyword co-occurrence network by Citespace software. The results showed that,in the past 30 years,the evaluation indices and methods of ecosystem services research were increasingly concerned by a lot of researchers; the current assessment focus is mainly on land use,grain production,biodiversity and so on; the study was carried out by global scale,single,natural ecosystems to small scale,complex ecosystems such as forest,grass,wetland and city; what's more,the research contents become more abundant,and the research methods tend to the establishment of models and big data visualization analysis; under the background of sustainable development,the integration of ecological protection,ecological restoration,ecological compensation and ecological security has gradually increased. To sum up,the field of ecosystem services,currently,has formed a complete framework of basic theories and research systems. The systematization of the research theme and content is gradually increasing, and the research hotspots and features are increasingly distinctive and prominent in ecosystem services. In addition,the research methods and techniques increasingly diversify. The feedback mechanism of ecosystem services under the climate change,land use change,landscape pattern changes and human activities attracted more attention in the last decade. China should carry out the evaluation,monitoring and restoration of ecosystem services according to its own national conditions.