Abstract: Focusing on the leadership, discourse power, communication mechanism, governance strategy and other basic issues of network ideology, this paper reviewed the research results on network ideology in recent years, expounded the perspectives, viewpoints and methods of existing research, and summarized the convergence and divergence. On this basis, the future research direction on network ideology is put forward, including: basic theoretical research of network ideology; study on modernization of network ideological governance capability; research on the Chinese road, theory and discourse of network ideological governance.