This paper analyzes the data and content of “People’s Daily Illustrated news”，“Beijing news data news”，“Caixin digital theory” and “thepaper.cn digital course”，and makes an overall investigation of the development status of domestic data news from three aspects：the number and distribution of topics，presentation mode and interactive effect. The study found that in 2017-2018，the output efficiency of the domestic data news industry decreased. Some works emphasize too much on visual beauty，and the news function of data news is weakened. There is less interaction between data news samples and audiences，so the communication effect needs to be improved. Solutions include：expanding robot writing；develop visual specifications；optimize interaction design，etc.