This paper collects hundred pieces of researches of Chinese communication studies in 2016, selects and categorizes them into ten modules by the criteria of question consciousness, research method and findings. These studies are reviewed into ten themes as follows: metacommunication, reexamining classical theories, methodology of communication studies in the Internet era, concepts and discourse analysis, collective memory studies, media technology in communication intellectual history studies, social protests and sentiment studies, labor studies, political communication and science communication.