The country competitions has not just political, military and other hard strength with deepening cooperation as well as the complexity of international relations, the more importance is the soft power of competition. The image of the country as an important part of soft power is received more and more attention. In a sense, national image’s good or bad is not only the country’s confidence and cohesion of standards, even a symbol of their status and influence in international affairs. Therefore, researching on the theoretical and practical dimensions of the image of the country is particularly important. National image as a subjective impression constitutes a mental representation of ethnic and country. This characterization always through the means of certain media displays with explicit or implicit. Dominance is the result of the collective unconscious, implicit is permeated individuals or groups’ different interpretation ways. No matter which ways, television media has played an important role in it. To some degree, national image is the essence of their game results between national medias and other medias in the information age. In this regard, how to use the TV media to create a good image of the country and enhance international status is the problems to be solved by the television workers.Diversity and three-dimensional form being presented by the documentary witness a nirvana rebirth’ nation in the wind and rain changing, which in addition to providing a true image of the Chinese nation, even reflecting the social reality in the context of the times and value orientation to some extent, this is undoubtedly laid the foundation for a more profound understanding of our national image. And the same time, documentary breaks barriers between Chinese and Western culture and with the most intuitive and the most vivid expression shows the country’s history, culture, which implies the historical reflection, strong humanistic appeal and a rich cultural heritage not only freed up the room of rational thought in the impetuous, fast-paced society, it provides a convenient way for us to excavate common human nature in the hiding of ancient and modern history, and to seek value aspirations of the Chinese and foreign cultures, thus achieve the recognition of the public at home and abroad on the country’s image.The research object is the Chinese documentary, from the perspective of historical development and contemporary social context explores how the country image present, showing what kind of national image. And how to recognize the country image with the relations between "perspective" and "thinking" and on this basis to explore the ultimate meaning of the image of the country and documentary. The paper divides into the following sections:The first part is the theoretical analysis of documentary and image of the country, it include the combination of related content, the primary means of shaping the image of nation and the reason why the documentary could shape the good image of nation.The second part tries to seek the tracking of the country image in Chinese documentary, the comb must not only limit to the description of the act itself, representative in various historical stages of documentary as an example, and reveals the hidden nature of image through creative concepts and characterization.The third section focuses on how the national image to present on the different types of documentaries, the documentary can be divided into several different types based on objects. Those several types of documentaries reveal the relationship by different perspectives and entry points. Then try to discuss on country image rendering problems with the combination of sociology and communication studies to interpret documentary texts and television language combining with the background of relevant political and social realities.