Abstract: Based on the CSSCI Journal of CNKI, this paper collects and analyzes the literature on cultural poverty alleviation in China from 1994 to 2020 by using bibliometric method and CiteSpace software. The number of published papers, authors, research institutions and keywords in this field are statistically analyzed, and the research hotspots are identified by clustering analysis. The results show that: the hot spots focus on ethnic areas, cultural targeted poverty alleviation, poverty culture, relative poverty, endogenous reconstruction, comprehensive poverty alleviation and so on. The concept, characteristics, difficulties and countermeasures of cultural poverty alleviation are relatively mature research directions.It is suggested that future research should strengthen cross field cooperation and increase the analysis of specific cases of cultural poverty alleviation to improve the depth of research.