Recently various circles of society in China are concerning about think tanks construction research.This paper analysed the status of China's think tanks construction based on bibliometrics.We hope the research could supply references for the construction of new types of think tanks with Chinese characteristics.Taking academic papers which are related to think tank construction from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) database between 1961-2016 as sample, by using bibliometrics and visualizing CiteSpace, this paper analyzed the status and development trend of China's think tank research.The study shows that, due to the central leaders' high attention to impel think tank construction, in recent years there are significant improvement and development in related articles, related journals, research groups, communication carriers and research hotspots of think tanks, showing the development and phased features of China's new types of think tanks.