Web Topic Analysis of the Two-child Policy in China

Since the Two-child Policy was enacted by The Chinese government in October 2015, two children in a family have become an important question related to people's livelihood and have triggered a wide discussion. As an important platform to discuss and monitor public opinion changes, Sina Weibo plays an important role in public opinion analysis. This paper chooses two-child policy as search topic to crawl 19751 related microblogs in Sina Weibo, uses topic over time (TOT) model of the microblogs to make topic analysis, to extract what people focus on the Internet. The results of analysis show that most people cause extensive concern of the country's follow-up policy, including economy, education and other aspects of the follow-up policy.