The Construction Of China’s National Image In News Reports On Poverty Alleviation In China Daily(2012-2022):A Transitivity-based Analysis

In 2021,China became the first developing country in the world to have achieved the poverty alleviation target of the Millennium Development Goals,historically solving the problem of absolute poverty,which provides China’s experience and solutions for the global poverty alleviation and shapes a relentless and cohesive national image of China with achievements.Therefore,it is an important element of international communication to tell the stories of China’s poverty alleviation to the outside world and present a vivid and three-dimensional national image of China.With the aid of the transitivity-and corpus-based approaches,combining the government image,enterprise image and people image in the national image,this study constructs a transitivity-based research framework for national image to conduct an exhaustive analysis of China Daily’s news reports on poverty alleviation during the ten years from 2012 to 2022 and explores China’s national image represented by China Daily’s poverty alleviation reports.The study examines the interaction between the government image,enterprise image and people image,and explores the characteristics and factors of China’s national image represented by news reports on poverty alleviation.It is found that a wide range of participants and circumstances representing national image are conducted to show that the Chinese government implements poverty alleviation work in a comprehensive manner,enterprises develop resources in accordance with geographic locations,and the means of people work together with enterprise and the guidance of the local government to carry out poverty alleviation work in accordance with the trend.And the six types of processes fully demonstrate the tripartite collaboration among the Chinese government,enterprises,and people in the fight against poverty,highlighting the comprehensive and coordinated government image,the image of enterprises with social responsibility and the industrious people image.In addition,some suggestions based on the distribution of transitivity discourse resources and the presentation of national image are proposed for the multidimensional construction and international communication of China’s national image in the future.