Survey shows that the Chinese public that an important and stable Sino-US relations

 Investigation has revealed, the results show: the public generally believed that China-US relations are very important, widespread concern about President Hu Jintao visited the United States that will remain stable development of Sino-US relations; situation on the Korean peninsula should be concerned when the Sino-US summit focus; public U.S. the public the impression that the Americans dominated with a positive evaluation.

survey, the public generally more concerned about President Hu Jintao visited the United States, nearly 六成 the public think that US summit in resolving bilateral issues, promote bilateral development is effective. For President Hu Jintao visited the United States and met with President Obama, the public that issues, other topics to be discussed include:

survey showed that 53% of the public that the 2010 Sino-US relations even worse than before. 80.2% of the public will blame the United States this unfavorable situation. Among them, the public that the United States in the political and economic behavior of the United States to China, China's political behavior of the United States more influence, the first mention was 39.8%, higher than the economic behavior of nearly 20 percentage points.


survey found that, in general, Sino-US cooperation, consensus and dialogue, will have a positive impact on the public good impression, but once some friction occurs between the two countries, dispute or difference, the public can easily cause fluctuations. For example, the end of 2009, although the degree of Obama's visit to China to enhance the opportunity to bring goodwill, but then came the challenge of China's core interests of the United States, Bilateral relations were tense and stalemate, which largely affected the feelings of the Chinese public to the U.S., favorability declined.

in the public respondents, the vast majority (90.9%) positive the importance of Sino-US relations, which, over half the public (54.3%) thought that to maintain good relations with the United States is very important. With the United States in response to global warming, economic crisis, energy crisis and food crisis to further deepen cooperation, the Chinese public to maintain good Sino-US relations increasingly high degree of recognition.

● public that the situation on the Korean Peninsula, Sino-US summit should focus when

● public generally believed that China-US relations are very important, the current friction does not affect the future of rational decisions

Figure 1 2001-2010 U.S. public good impression of each other's countries, trends

● the U.S. show the development trend of steadily and peaked in 2009 (65.1 points), Obama met with the Dalai Lama in 2010, U.S. arms sales to such acts as frequent, the U.S. public decreased (48.8 points). China, in 2010 the American public American public each country's

for the development of Sino-US relations, nearly 六成 general public that will remain stable, 23.8% believe that relations will get better and better, and that the relationship will become increasingly poor public accounting for 10 %. Among them, 30 years of age in the public optimistic about 32.4%, while the other age groups the highest proportion was only 21.7%. The survey found that at least two factors make youth groups on a more positive expectations of Sino-US relations: first, the development of Sino-US relations of young people in a more multi-angle, multi-faceted thinking, rather than simple black and white conclusions; Second, youth Select the new media more and more people (27.8%) as an important channel for China and the U.S. information. New media full, prompt and favorable characteristics of diversified spread of young people to make more positive judgments.

the public opinion survey was conducted in December 2010 of 20 to 30, in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Shenyang, Xi'an, 7 cities simultaneously carried out, a total of 1443 more than 18 years of age and permanent residents in a telephone survey, and Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, three cities, businesses, media, research institutions and 16 NGO areas of prominent social elite in-depth visit. Key findings are as follows:

Source: Chinese, U.S. favorability 2001-2009 on data from the Horizon Research Consultancy Group, favorability data from the 2005-2010 report released by Pew Research.