The Research On Ethnic Identity Of China’s Minority By Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao

In the first session of the12th National People’s Congress (NPC) of2013, the general secretary Xi Jinping, also the national leader, made animportant speech about Chinese Minorities. The Speech pointed out that,the national minorities is an important member of the Chinese nation, andwe must unswervingly consolidate and develop national unity. In whichmore emphasized in the process of realizing the Chinese Dream, we needthe power of great unity from all ethnic groups, especially the unity ofminority people is indispensable important force. Thus the development ofethnic group identity of minorities is particularly important in today’ssociety of China.In this thesis, Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao as a research subject, byselecting four years(2008-2011) news reports about Chinese minorities todo content analysis, it aims to study the ethnic identity situation of thenews reports by overseas Chinese news media’s unique perspective. Theauthor of this paper takes the combining method of quantitative researchand qualitative research, make code and quantitative the extracted272news reports about Chinese minorities, and then do qualitative analysisaccording to the results based on statistical data.I hope to have an in-depthpresentation of reports on minorities in China in Lianhe Zaobao ofSingapore, and expect to find its status and characteristics on the ethnicgroup identity of Chinese minorities.Through the research, I concludes the following three findings:1. Asthe Overseas Chinese media representatives, Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobaohas formed a relatively objective, neutral style when reported on Chinese minorities, is neither different from the Western media of demonizingChina nor the Chinese media’s mouthpiece tendency.2. The formationof ethnic group identity is not simply a political problem, and the massmedia plays a crucial role in the formation of ethnic group identity.3. Themass media for external communication should establish objective andimpartial view of ethnic group identity, promote the development of ethnicgroup identity in a positive direction, and create a harmony and commonprosperity of national environment.