Abstract: In order to grasp the research progress and frontiers of China’ s agricultural total factor productivity, and explore the knowledge structure and theme evolution of China’ s agricultural total factor productivity, based on the CNKI database, this paper uses bibliometrics to systematically analyze the evolution of the research content, research topics and frontier hotspots of China’ s agricultural total factor productivity in the past 30 years. Within the scope of the research, the research on China’ s agricultural total factor productivity has shown the characteristics of phased evolution and development, and has continuously formed a comprehensive research paradigm of interdisciplinary. The evolution and development of the various research themes are intertwined, and the field of agricultural total factor productivity is continuously promoted to expand outward, forming the integration and comprehensive application of disciplinary knowledge. At present, the research hotspots of China’ s agricultural total factor productivity are sustainable agricultural growth, green agricultural total factor productivity and the impact of various factors on agricultural total factor productivity. On the Timeline cluster analysis map, it can be seen that the boundaries between the research topics are clear, the selection of research methods, research indicators and the evaluation of the quality of factor inputs will be the focus and difficulty in the field of total factor productivity research in the future.