"The Belt And Road Initiative":Twitter Network Public Opinion Analysis And Suggestion

Chinese president Xi Jinping advocates Silk Road Economic Belt in September,2013 and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road in Auguest 2013, named’the belt and road initiative’for short. In March 2015,’the belt and road initiative’was written in official document and became a priority in diplomacy. The year 2015 becomes the implemention year of’the belt and road initiative’. With continuously signed agreement from neighboring countries, more and more cooperative projects presented. Under such super-speed, so many viewpoints from different countries collided, so did the many political and economic elements behind. What are the most focused topics? Only by a comprehensive rendering of each participating country and identity groups alone’the belt and road initiative’can we accurately answer this core problem and summarize the problem, and in a targeted manner to enhance China’s ability to guide public opinion and of directional communication.This paper researches on the online public opinion of "the belt and road initiative" on the international popular social media Twitter in year 2015, focusing on topic propagation, combining qualitative and quantitative research methods, depicts a comprehensive "one belt one road" picture of public opinion, illustrate the content producers and attitude output process in several "public opinion power" such as United States, Britain, Hong Kong India, Australia. "opinion leaders" are experts, entrepreneurs, writers, producers topic of the media, think tanks. The most concerned areas are infrastructure, transport, energy, heavy industry, the Internet, business, academic research, and Chinese users and international users concerns exist dislocation. Meanwhile, by cross the discipline boundary beteween communication and information science, the paper illustrates the complicated social networks between a lot of communicators, tells what kind of friendship really matters and concludes the key points.In the end, the paper concludes the problems appeared in the process of China’s communication of "the belt and road initiative" on social media. Meanwhile, it put forward some countermeasures to explore appropriate communication mothods for "the belt and road initiative" on social networks and explores the room for improvement. In this process, the perspective of International Relations, Cultural Dissemination and Geography are combined.