Youth is the hope of the country, the future of the nation, young people are the source of national strategic talent strength. In order to provide reference for the research on the strategy of strengthening the country by talents, the development trend of the research on young talents in the academic circle was systematically grasped, the frontier hot spots of the research on young talents were sort out. With the help of visual literature analysis software CiteSpace, 319 Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) journal papers on “young talents” collected by CNKI was analyzed, and the existing research results were visualized from the aspects of the number of publications, author cooperation network, research theme, development context and research hotspots. At the same time, the shortcomings of the research on young talents and the way to further promote it in the future are put forward. The analysis shows that the current hot spots of young talents research focus on young scientific and technological talents, young talents policy, young talents training and other fields. Future research on young talents needs to be combined with national development needs, combined with the theme of The Times, combined with the characteristics of young people, to do more in-depth and specific research.