Taking 1 602 papers about innovative talents training published in Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI) database from 1998 to 2019 as research samples, the paper analyzes the distribution of publication year, research institutions, core journals and research authors systematically by bibliometric analysis, and analyzes the hot topics and research trends about innovative talent training in China by visualized analysis with CiteSpace. Research results show that the hot topics of innovative talents training in China mainly include cultivation system, cultivation mode, teaching system and cultivation standards, and the research evolution process can be roughly divided into four stages. In the future, research can be carried out around the cultivation law and path, "double first-class" construction, emerging engineering education, morality-preferred and people-oriented responsibility, education internationalization and other research fields.