The Evolution Of Rural Poverty Coverage By Traditional Mainstream Print Media

China’s socialist market economy is the world’s second largest economy by nominal GDP,and the world’s largest economy by purchasing power parity.But on account of unbalanced regional development,the scale of impoverished people throughout the country still was enormous.There are around 82 million people living in poverty in China.Since 18th CPC National Congress on December 8,2012,Poverty alleviation and development has been promoted to new heights by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,and Poverty alleviation and development throughout the reports of 18th CPC National Congress.Poverty alleviation concerns building moderately prosperous society,people’s wellbeing,consolidate the Party’s ruling foundation,national long-term stability and China’s international image.Win the fight against poverty,can facilitated all the people share the achievements of reform and development,and realize common prosperity.What role does media should play in the process of country’s modernization or development? How can make media play an active role in prompting nation’s development? This is a question not only government need to solve,but also an essential issue that development communication who pay close attention toThe paper collected last 10 year’s rural poverty coverage on People’s daily and Hubei daily,through the attention from the main stream media to poverty,by taking sample survey,and tries to answer the above question.Since the 18th CPC National Congress,while government pursues efforts to poverty alleviation,how much change do media take? On this basis,assess the role definition of the mainstream print media.Through comparison between People’s Daily and Hubei’s Daily before and after the 18th CPC national congress,some problems still exists.Based on this,author posts several solutions,more rational thinking,more focus on poor area,and improve the absence of reports of poor people.