NOUFERROUS METALLURGICAL EQUIPMENT

Relevant literature with ropeway or cable car as the subject term of the ropeway industry from 1990 to 2021 in the CNKI database was retrieved, and the annual literature output, literature source institutions, authors, source journals, and keywords are analyzed through Citespace, Bibexcel and other software. It is found that the number of ropeway related documents increases year by year which is in a high-speed development stage; in terms of ropeway patents, a number of valuable ropeway technology patents have been reserved; on the whole, the prospect of the industry is optimistic. At present, there are research groups represented by Professor ZHOU Xin-nian of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and research units represented by Beijing Materials Handling Research Institute and China ENFI Engineering Corporation in the industry. However, from the analysis of cooperation among research units, there is inadequate cooperation and communication between different units in the ropeway industry. According to the analysis of source journals, Hoisting and Conveying Machinery has published the most papers related to ropeways. The innovation research of passenger ropeway and ropeway equipment and the exploration of ropeway application in different fields are the current research focus and development focus.