Abstract: The aim of this research is to summary the water-saving irrigation techniques and to establish a theoretical basis for the development of high-efficiency water-saving agriculture in China. CNKI was used as the source of original literatures and the searching conditions were set with ‘title’=‘water-saving irrigation technique’, ‘and’=‘extension’ and ‘years’=2006-2015. The publication years and journals of the obtained 900 literatures were analyzed by using bibliometric method. The results showed that water-saving irrigation techniques were in the developing and exploring stage and the development of popularization and application was fast. Microirrigation, sprinkling irrigation and drip irrigation under mulch had relative strong applicability and were widely applied in production practice. Finally the problems existed in the popularization and application of water-saving irrigation techniques were summaried and the corresponding measures were put forward.