Abstract: Objective: To analysis the current status and the issues of transitional care in China in order to provide references and suggestions for further research in this area. Methods: We searched and analyzed the literature about transitional care in 11 Chinese nursing core periodicals from CNKI and Wanfang Database. Results: Totally 318 articles were included and the number of publication tends to increase. Literature mainly were from Guangdong, Jiangsu, Beijing and other economically developed regions and most articles were from hospitals. 34.59% of the papers were supported by funds. The application and effect of transitional care was the main research topics. Transitional care was mainly delivered in forms of telephone and short message follow-ups, home visits and network information platforms. The evaluation parameters mainly included patients functional abilities and clinical outcomes. Conclusion: In recent years, transitional care developed rapidly and got an increasing attention in China, however, improvements need to be focused on research depth and width, multidisciplinary approach and collaboration, and standard conducts and policy and procedures. In the future, we should utilize network information platform, implement variety forms of service and strengthen the relationship between hospital and community health service institution to establish hospital-community-family service mode.