Reporting Framework And National Image Representation Of The Poverty Alleviation In The New Era

Eliminating poverty is a common challenge faced by the international community in the course of development.Since the 18 th CPC Central Committee in China,poverty alleviation has been given the first priority in the governance of the country.The success of China’s poverty alleviation has been the greatest in human history given the scale and of impact of this program.It has made an unprecedented miracle in human history of poverty reduction,providing a new perspective and potentially a solution for poverty alleviation in other developing countries.The significant achievement made by China in the history of human poverty reduction proves the superiority of socialism and strengthens the confidence and determination in the global community to end human poverty.Many countries have since expressed their desire to learn from China’s successful experience and find some valuable if not reproducible anti-poverty practices.In this context,the issue of poverty eradication provides a good opportunity for China to show its real and multidimensional national image and enhance its national influence.This paper selects People’s Daily Overseas Edition from 2013 to March 2021 as the study sample.By combining frame theory and news discourse theory,and employing content analysis,text analysis and other research methods,the issue construction,elements highlights and discourse significance of the poverty eradication reports are analyzed in this study at three levels: high,low and medium.This paper also extracts and sorts out the basic strategies for framing the reports of People’s Daily Overseas Edition on poverty eradication,from which the national images of “standing together with immense social solidarity” as a united whole;"problem solver and people’s servant" as a responsible government;"pragmatic and innovative” as a developing pioneer;and “open,generous in sharing for mutual benefits” as a friendly country are presented.The article ends with some thoughts and inspirations on how the China’s foreign communication media should inform the world of China’s anti-poverty achievements and rural revitalization,and convey China’s national image.They are listed as below: focus on people’s voices,use small stories to represent people’s livelihoods;link multiple medias to expand the image of discourse communication;take the initiative to remove communication barriers,and accurately convey the behind-the-scenes stories.Ultimately,we will form a foreign communication pattern embedded with communication power,compelling characteristics and influential capacity.