s the biggest country for energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission in the world, China’s peak value of carbon dioxide emission attracts extensive attention of academic circles at home and abroad. From the perspective of macro-research progress in the peak value of carbon dioxide emission of China, regional decomposition and industrial share of the objective of the peak value of carbon dioxide emission of China and the policy design for rapidly reaching the peak value, this paper overall studies systematic research results in this field, demonstrates the history of the issue of the peak value of carbon dioxide emission of China, sets up the basic framework for the research on this subject in academic circles, analyzes the evolution of the main researches in the related fields, and confirms the further research directions by urgently constructing academic framework for the peak value of carbon dioxide emission, by strengthening middle-level and micro-level research work, by systematically studying the policy and effect for reaching the peak value, and by enhancing the influence of the peak value research on the economy and society and so on through the revealing of the consensus and difference in academic circles on this issue.