Abstract: As a cross-regional comprehensive heritage protection or utilization theory and method, heritage corridor collects a variety of functions and adventure, providing a kind of new ideas and perspectives to protect exploit and utilize heritage. Analyses the situation of heritage corridor, through the method of literature metrology, combining visualization software, found the study of heritage corridor, on the whole, at the start and exploring stage, focus on the empirical study is given priority to, research perspectives and scale is focused on the macro scale, research subject mainly related to building science and engineering, landscape design, tourism, culture, archaeology, etc. The research object more choose industrial heritage corridor, heritage corridor of research topics include the construction of heritage corridor, heritage corridor of value evaluation, constitute the interaction between system and heritage corridor and tourism. It points out the research of Chinese heritage corridor is insufficient, should pay attention to the localization of heritage corridor theory research, broaden the research field of vision, detailed study.