Research On Coverage Of“ Xi Jinping’s Visit To Germany”in Germany’s Mainstream Newspaper

In March 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping made three-day state visit to Germany, which is the President’s first trip to Germany since he assumed office earlier. The first visit of President Xi to Germany drew close attention from the media,which reflected in the great amount of detailed and intensive media coverage in the mainstream medias in Germany. This paper takes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,Süddeutsche Zeitung und Die Weit as the objeets and their reports on Xi Jinping’s visit to Germany as samples. This paper, using content analysis and quantitative research,examined the content and form of the Coverage of“Xi Jinping’s visit to Germany”in the mainstream medias in Germany, analyzed reporting techniques, reporting strategy and reporting methods, The study found the following reporting characteristics of reports on Xi Jinping’s visit to Germany in mainstream medias:widely reported theme, pay attention to depth report, various photo reports, hide attitudes in the report, critical perspective, rich in detail. And analyzed the deep reasons behind it from the view of national interests, cultural differences, nature of the media and the concept of media.President’s state visit is of great news value and the focus of the media reports.How to improve the level of President’s visit reports in our mainstream newspapers is important. The German major mainstream newspapers view objective and freedom as the basis of running the newspaper. In the meanwhile, Germany’s culture, as the most important part of European culture, contains more free, equal and serious elements.It gives us some edifications as the following: increasing in-depth reports, extend coverage combined with the visit to expand coverage topics, breakthrough pattern of official reports, enhanced readability of visit reports, note reporting skills and artistry,deal with both positive and negative news.