1.Investigation purpose：
According to the data from investigation, we analyze the public attitude of the new silk road and economic belt, then analyze the strategic role and influence of them, such as: the degrees of public support of “New Silk Road ” and impact on occupation.
2. Detailed analysis of investigate result:
Public awareness of the “silk road economic belt”:
The new silk road and economic belt is the re-establishment of the “old silk road” in the new period, and when it comes to the impression of the ancient silk road, 90.66% of the respondents said they had a good impression, with 53% of respondents saying they were impressed. As for the “silk road economic belt”, The survey data shows that the public’s awareness of the “silk road economic belt” is 67.94%.
| Awareness level | Proportion |
| Understand a little bit | 18.68% |
| Understand a lot | 49.26% |
| Incomprehension | 32.06% |
The impact on occupation
In the occupational distribution, civil servants and public institutions have the best understanding of the silk road economic belt, which is 90.32 %, followed by students, 74.79%, the enterprise unit, freelancer and other people’s awareness is lower, 60.34%. This is mainly because the civil service, enterprises and institutions and students have a relatively stable access to relevant information, and the enterprise staff and freelancers are not, so it has relatively low proportion of known.
| Profession | Awareness Degree |
| Civil servant | 90.32% |
| Group A | 60.34% |
| Students | 74.79% |
(Group A include Employees, private owners, retirees, freelancers, farmers.)
At the same time, the development of education, agriculture, industry and business are all effected by “new silk road and economic belt”. For example: Farmers’ awareness and understanding is low before we spread the information of silk road development to them. It is mainly because there is a gap between the wealthy and poor and farmers are limited by education level, and relatively have low attention to national strategies and policies. During the development progress keep going, the agricultural cooperation between China and countries along the One Belt And One Road has deepened. Farmers are willing to product more crops to support new silk road idea and at the same time, their live standard is improved.
- In Shaanxi Yangling, high yield and good quality wheat is growing and number 5 winter wheat was exported to the countries along the One Belt And One Road. It adapt to the arid and semi-arid climate of Kazakhstan very quickly, and per mu yield was 82.28% higher than the local varieties’. It was welcomed by local farmers and enterprises.
- In kyrgyzstan’s bo Lin states, Chinese companies invest the construction of 20000 mu of forage which build a win-win situation, they provide the seeds for the local people, and the enterprise is responsible for the purchase and sale. It is not only create employment opportunities for local and taxes, but also grass will also be sold to the Chinese market.
The social public’s support for the construction of the SREB:
The survey results showed that 79.62% of respondents had positive attitude on the construction of the silk road economic belt. Nobody chose the “no support” option in the questionnaire.
| Attitude | Number of people | Proportion (%) |
| Very supportive | 141 | 29.94 |
| Supportive | 234 | 49.68 |
| General | 71 | 15.07 |
| Indifferent | 25 | 5.31 |
| Unsupported | 0 | 0 |
Future expectation
- Strengthen promoting
- Grab the opportunity
- Use advantages
- Cooperation
3. Conclusion
- 1. The constructions of the silk road economic belt aims to promote the cooperation and development of countries along the belt and road. The public has a high degree of support for the constructions and believes that “trade opening” is the most important construction. That means those firms are related with trade , export and tourism have a chance to develop themselves.
- 2. The public is optimistic about the construction of the silk road economic belt. 85.56 % of the respondents wanted to build in an open form. They hope more countries could join the economic belt and cooperate and develop together.Relative to the ancient silk road, some people believed we can achieve the glory of ancient silk road. Some people held the conservative attitude. All in all, public attitude is optimistic.