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The population policy change from the rigid One-Child Policy to the Selective Two-Child Policy then to the Universal Two-Child Policy aroused great attention of the Chinese people.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>This research uses the crawler technique to extract data on the Sina Weibo platform. Through opinion mining of Weibo posts on two sets of population policy, the Weibo users\u2019 online opinions on the Two-Child Policy are analyzed from two perspectives: their attention intensity and sentiment tendency. The research also use the State Bureau of Statistics of China\u2019s national population data between 2011 and 2016 to examine the Chinese people\u2019s actual birth behaviors after implementing the two different sets of the Two-Child Policy.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The research findings indicate that the Selective Two-Child Policy (Phase 2) and the Universal Two-Child Policy are good examples of thematic public sphere of Weibo. Weibo posts on the two sets of the Two-Child Policy have undergone different opinion cycles. People from economically developed regions and populous regions have paid more attention to both sets of Two-Child Policy than their counterparts in the less developed and less populated regions. Men pay more attention to the Two-Child Policy than women do. Despite people\u2019s huge attention to the new population policy, the population growth after the policy is not sustainable.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The new population policy alone is difficult to boost China\u2019s population within a short period of time. The Chinese Government must provide its people with enough incentives and supporting welfare to make the population growth happen.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>These findings have important implications for understanding the dynamics of online opinion formation and changing population policy in China.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/oir-07-2017-0217","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,18]],"date-time":"2018-09-18T02:37:28Z","timestamp":1537238248000},"page":"387-403","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Chinese online public opinions on the Two-Child Policy"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"43","author":[{"given":"Shixiong","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1238-5732","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yu","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"issue":"2","key":"key2020092312263440100_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"131","DOI":"10.1002\/poi3.117","article-title":"The \u2018social side\u2019 of public policy: monitoring online public opinion and its mobilization during the policy cycle","volume":"8","year":"2016","journal-title":"Policy and Internet"},{"key":"key2020092312263440100_ref002","first-page":"5494","article-title":"Framing corruption in the Chinese government: a comparison of frames between media, government, and netizens","volume":"10","year":"2016","journal-title":"International Journal of Communication"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2020092312263440100_ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1080\/1369118X.2013.857425","article-title":"Taking stock, moving forward: the internet, social networks and civic engagement in Chinese societies","volume":"17","year":"2014","journal-title":"Information, Communication & Society"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2020092312263440100_ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"308","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pubrev.2014.11.010","article-title":"Gender and politics: patriarchal discourse on social media","volume":"41","year":"2015","journal-title":"Public Relations Review"},{"key":"key2020092312263440100_ref005","first-page":"126","article-title":"Agenda construction of public policy, mass media and online opinions: a case study of public opinions on population","year":"2012"},{"key":"key2020092312263440100_ref006","volume-title":"The Incontrollable Population Control","year":"2013"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2020092312263440100_ref007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"86","DOI":"10.1080\/1369118X.2013.853817","article-title":"Weibo network, information diffusion and implications for collective action in China","volume":"17","year":"2014","journal-title":"Information, Communication & Society"},{"key":"key2020092312263440100_ref008","unstructured":"Huang, W. and Liang, J. 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