BACKGROUND: Foreign scholars have developed some scientific and applicable assessment tools for children’s movement development. However, because the assessment tools will be affected by the regional, cultural and ethnic norm data, these foreign assessment tools cannot be directly used in China. Therefore, it is of great significance to understand the development of international assessment tools for children’s movement development in order to help researchers in related fields to develop scientific assessment tools for children’s movement development assessment in China. OBJECTIVE: By using the methods of literature analysis, visual analysis and mathematical statistics, to analyze the discipline characteristics, dynamic evolution and frontier hot spots of the international children’s movement development assessment research in the past 30 years, in order to comprehensively understand the research overview of the international children’s movement development assessment from a macro perspective. METHODS: The Web of Science Core Collection database from 1990 to 2020 was searched using search topics #1 “elementary or pupil or primary school or middle school or secondary school or children or preschool or Kindergarten or Pediatrics”, #2 “motor skills or gross motor or fine motor or coordination or motor developmental delay or developmental coordination disorder or motor difficulty or motor development defect or motor development or motor proficiency or motor competencies”, #3 “questionnaire or tools or assessment or scale or test”, and #4 (#1 and #2 and #3). Finally, 11 680 literatures were selected as the research data of this paper and Citespace5.5R2 software was used for literature visualization analysis. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The research on the evaluation of children’s movement development is characterized by interdisciplinary subjects such as pediatrics, neuroscience and neurology, psychology, neuroscience, education and education research, sports science, etc. The evolution of international assessment of children's movement development can be divided into basic development stage, rapid development stage and high-speed development stage. The development of assessment tools in different stages always revolves around the impact of movement development on different children’s cognition, personality, social adaptation and physical health. The cutting-edge trend of international assessment of children’s movement development mainly focuses on movement development and interventions in premature infants, movement development in children with muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy, and coordination in autism children, the relationship between children’s movement development and children’s physical health, as well as the prediction of children’s physical activity based on children’s movement development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]