Coastal regions are very much highly ecologically sensitive areas with its high population density and vital economic concentration is a much well-known fact and universally acknowledged both among the experts on related fields and environmentalists who are interested in this issue and very much active in promotion of costal-protection consciousness in the entire society. Thus, for most us it goes without saying that enhancing their resilience to climate change disturbances is a very important and for too long much-ignored means, which in fact will, to the maximum, promote sustainable coastal zone governance in the modern world, and we firmly believe which undoubtedly will benefit our future generations to come. We will try to identify the concept, the connotation, and the characteristics of coastal resilience from the various perspectives of adapting to climate change in this study of ours that is in a sense one of the newest, the most urgent and the most necessary under the current circumstances. During the process of our research, we will adopt the most up-to-date software analysis and widely-used method of generalization to sort out the hotspot structure distribution, evolutionary features, and buzzword theme categories of coastal resilience-related research. And, it is a well-established truth that the current coastal resilience research mainly focuses on the following four major aspects: first, resilience mechanism analysis; Second, resilience characterization measurement; Third, resilience enhancement pathways; Last but not the least, resilience management strategies. We will follow this path and our results of the study duly show that there are still weaknesses on how to define the disaster impact scope, which is currently based on the undermentioned several aspects—they are multi-hazard coupling chain evolution, complex system spatiotemporal resilience measurement, and human-land-sea resilience matching. Furthermore, our study also suggests that future research on China’s coastal zone climate resilience needs to pay more attention to the following three fields. Which are theoretical system construction, spatial planning practice, and multidisciplinary cross-fertilization. Finally, based on the logic of principle-goal-path, the climate resilience governance framework of the coastal zone will be envisioned in four dimensions: Firstly, identifying the governance object; Secondly, taking risk chain assessment as the starting point of resilience governance; Thirdly, collaborating with the governance subject and fourthly, exploring the balance of resilience in cross-interest governance, coordinating the governance space and constructing the optimal governance model of resilience space, and innovating the governance mechanism and improving the long-term path of resilience governance.