English News Website In China Problems And Countermeasures Of Foreign Communication Research

External communication plays an important role in a country’s economic development, culture spread and image-building, and they promote each other forward. By virtue of its advantages on interactivity, wideness and instantaneity, online media, which is called "the forth media", offers a huge platform for the external communication. With the steady improvement of the comprehensive national strength and the international status, China’s external communication cause is endowed higher mission and greater responsability.In recent years, China’s English news websites have made great progress in the external communication cause. However, at the same time, some problems still exist, and there is large room for these websites to improve. This thesis takes the six China’s state-class English news websites as examples, first, summarizing the unique advantages of online media in its external communication, introducing the status quo of the six websites, and figure out the general features of the websites’reports by quantitative analysis and statistics of the English news in2011on www.english.peopledaily.com.cn and www.xinhuanet.com/english. Then, discussing the shortcomings of the websites from the point of view of five elements of a communication progress, respectively, communicator, media, information, audience and effect. And then, finding out the macroscopical reasons leading to these problems by analysis. Finally, aiming at solving the current problems of China’s English news websites in the external communication, this thesis raises the corresponding solutions.