The influence of national policies on the evolution of industrial design education in China

This study systematically describes research trends of “industrial design education in China” using bibliometrics mapping from 1992 to 2021. This study aims to sort out industrial design education's historical flow in China and analyze its intrinsic links with Chinese national policies. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods is used to describe and analyze this study. A technique that combines policy historical analysis with a bibliometric review based on Citespace's knowledge mapping is used in this research. The study was conducted on 492 ″Industrial Design Education” papers included in the core collection database of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure between 1992 and 2021. The results obtained from this study are 1) Research on industrial design education in China has grown steadily over the past three decades and remained high-quality level; 2) The three main research themes are “Chinese culture,” “interdisciplinary cooperation” and “government, industry, academia and research” cooperation; 3) Innovation and entrepreneurship, evaluation system, Interdisciplinary, new engineering, and new liberal arts are the research hot spots of Chinese core journals; 4) Interdisciplinary construction in the context of new engineering, assessment system research in the context of high-quality development, and innovation and entrepreneurship education in the context of creative industry development are the future research directions.