Comparative Research On Chinese Universal Two-Child Policy Reporting

As the aging problem arising in China,central government has made a major adjustment of basic state policy of family planning.In October,2015,the universal two-child policy has raised huge concern in society,and reported widely by mass media.The paper selects People's Daily,South Metropolitan Daily and Surging News as representatives of three types of media in China,conducting research on their reports about the universal two-child policy.The aim of this paper is to discuss the same and difference between different report frames,including reasons behind it.The paper also offers advices in the end.The study samples are chosen from the reports of three broadsheets,timeline spans from November 5th,2014 to March 31 th,2016.Based on the theoretical framework,the paper did a quantization research by using the content analysis method.It is found that the fame used by People's Daily is based on politics and propaganda,while the frame used by South Metropolitan Daily is about public interest and business.As for the frame used by Surging News,social responsibility and media supervision are the core of their reports.Study result reveals that the reports from different media have obvious differences in their frame while focusing on same fact,because of their different aim,standpoint,reporting tradition and geographical location.The paper argues that how these media position themselves and their reporting idea,along with influences of politics determines how they frame their stories.In order to solve the reporting problems of different media,this thesis proposed several suggestions.As for partisan press,giving ordinary people more chance to speak and adopting a more objective stance would be the first step.Suggestions for commercial media are extending report range and reducing advertisements.As for new media,journalistic professionalism would be the most important issue.Controlling the emotions of news report would be helpful too.The repot of universal two-child policy in the future should give more space for different voice in society,but not restricted in several narrow angles.A neutral and objective attitude would be helpful for the policy to do greater good for society.