Research progress and hotspots of China^s sports diplomacy----Visual analysis based on CiteSpace
Sun Zhongkui

Henan Normal University School of Physical Education

Abstract

Sports diplomacy is an important part of the country^s foreign cultural exchange activities, and it undertakes the important mission of shaping and spreading the country^s image. Under the background of China^s new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed a new type of international relations and a new type of major-country relationship, and emphasized the importance of building a community with a shared future for mankind. Under the guidance of the new type of international relations, sports diplomacy is also playing an increasingly important role, becoming the One of the important media of communication between countries. By discussing the research progress and hotspots of China^s sports diplomacy research, this article uses ^China^s sports diplomacy^ and ^sports diplomacy^ as the search keywords to search on China^s CNKI website. Retrieval date: August 2022, the source category is Chinese core journals, CSSCI , and finally got 155 papers. And CiteSpace software is used to visualize the number of publications, authors, journals, institutions, keywords, etc., so as to grasp the dynamic trend of China^s sports diplomacy research, and then provide a useful reference for the theoretical research of China^s sports diplomacy.

Keywords: China- sports diplomacy- visualization analysis

Topic: Sport, international relations, and diplomacy