The actual demand for traditional rural tourism in China has promoted rural ecotourism. Since its beginning, it aborted quite academic attention in the diverse hot  eld. The article uses a systematic review method to analyze 665 documents statistically. The theme has a clear policy orientation, the economic perspective is mainline, the research area covers the whole country, and the research methods are diverse. From the time series, it can be divided into the germination stage (1999-2002), the initial development stage (2003-2009), the rapid development stage (2010- 2014), and the in-depth research stage (2015-2017). In the research context, this paper summarizes the research progress from the primary research, subject, object, industry development, development research, marketing management, and sustainable development of rural ecotourism, and  nally proposes tourists for the shortcomings in the study， suchasoutlook, human resources, marketing management, and sustainable development.