OBJECTIVE： To investigate the basic trends and hot issues of the literature about Chinese vocational education of Pharmacy Specialty in Higher Vocational Colleges， and provide reference for improving vocational education system. METHODS： Literatures about vocational education of Pharmacy Specialty in Higher Vocational Colleges， which included in CNKI， Wanfang Database and VIP Database from 2005 to 2015 were retrieved. BICOMB 2.0 was used to extract keywords， year and the corresponding literature quantity， journals， authors and institutions for literature metrology， and establish article matrix about high-frequency keywords； then， imported the article matrix into SPSS 21.0 for cluster analysis； finally， gCLUTO 1.0 was applied for co-occurrence analysis and vi-sualized cluster analysis. RESULTS： There were 176 literatures obtained from 80 journals， showing an trend change from rising year by year to turning steady； the top 5 authors respectively were LUO Yue’e （6 articles）， CHEN Junrong， YU Na， YANG Hong， SU Chunmei （5 articles for each）； the top 5 institutions respectively were Yancheng Health Vocational and Technical College （9 articles）， Tianjin Medical College （6 articles）， Yanjing Medical College of Capital Medical University， Hunan Food and Drug Vocational College， Wuxi health higher occupation technical school and Heilongjiang Land Reclamation Vocational College （5 articles in each）. In addition to “pharmacy specialty”“higher vocational and specialized education” “Pharmacy specialty in Higher Vocational Colleges” “vocational education” “Higher Vocational Education”， the high-frequency keyword also included “internships” “reform in education” “talent cultivation mode”“curriculum system” “school-enterprise cooperation” “work integrated learning”， etc.； 6 clusters were gotten by keywords double cluster analysis. CONCLUSIONS： The literature quantity about Chinese vocational education of Pharmacy Specialty in Higher Vocational Colleges has gradually stable， and those literature has made the beneficial exploration from certain aspects like training model innovation， school-enterprise cooperation， combining learning with work and strengthening the training， which can provide reference for improving the vocational education system.