A Framing Analysis On Business And Financial Reports On China By The Economist In2011

The Economist, a well‐renowned magazine on varying topics from financial and business news to social or cultural stories has been universally accepted as a complicated reading material owned only by senior officials or high‐level businessmen. Its comments, which have always been a symbol for The Economist, often incited great inspiration or discussion among top‐level readers. So the study of The Economist on Chinese news report is becoming vital. Therefore, the financial and business news report on China in2011has been studied by writer with framing analysis, including three dimensions, i.e. macro, medium, micro perspective. The macro perspective includes the number and the section of reports; the medium perspective includes the topics and the types of the reports; the micro perspective includes words with Chinese characteristics and keywords denotation. This is the frame for this study.Through framing analysis, the writer discovered some findings as following: First, the total number of business and financial reports on China by The Economist amounts up to48%of the whole package of reports on China; while the total number of business and financial reports on China by The Economist amounts up to4.3%of total volume of reports made by The Economist. And the sections that the business and financial reports on China take up line sequentially from World this week, Business, Financial and Economics, Asia, Special report, Briefing, Leaders, International. Secondly, six themes are generally covered, that is macroeconomic image; economic reforms; government’s intervention in market; comparison with other emerging economies; China’s entrepreneurship. And the types of report vary from news reporting to comments, with the compound of interpretive reporting and comment the most widely employed. Thirdly, words with Chinese characteristics are widely used to make the maxim objectiveness and locality feels. Meanwhile, the keywords used to describe China’s government are always negative, denoting that The Economist disagrees with what the China exclaims.