A Framework Analysis Of Global Times' Reporting On The Belt And Road

The Belt and Road initiative was proposed in September,2013.It is a kind of result caused by the development of new era.Chinese government proposed that Asian and European countries will build a Maritime and Land Silk Road.In other words,in the twenty-first Century,the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road are called The Belt and Road.The purpose of the proposition is to develop the ancient Silk Road,which will build a bridge between China and the world,a community of interests between China,Asian and European countries as well as a new path for building a better world with development and prosperity.Since The Belt and Road initiative was put forward,the news media had reported and unscrambled it,which made great contributions to the process of transmitting information to the audience.In the past five years,Global Times had been keeping up with the hot topics,and reporting the relevant contents of The Belt and Road in time.Global Times had widely reported and converged the relevant news about The Belt and Road to enhance the understanding of it for people from all over the world.News articles mainly narrate and comment it to create a good public circumstance.Global Times plays an important role in telling the story of China and conveying the voice of China.The paper selects Global Times from September 7,2013 to September 7,2018 and carries out a news frame analysis on the relevant news articles reported by the Global Times.It mainly discusses the relevance of Global Times to The Belt and Road from the aspects of the number of reports,the length of reports,the theme of reports,the tendentiousness of reports,the genre of reports,the sources of news,the coverage of reports,the micro level and the reporting structure to characteristics of news materials,productive process and factual construction.Through the analysis of news frames,which concludes Global Times wide sources of news in the relevant reports of The Belt and Road.And its content is more comprehensive and authoritative.Objective news and commentary news can make a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of The Belt and Road,which forms a report structure mainly based on balanced reporting and positive publicity.Paying attention to the "The Belt and Road" theory,"The Belt and Road" practical significance display,and the theme framework of the four aspects of international(home)relations and economic and trade cooperation extended by "The Belt and Road".Based on this research,the author summed the significance of The Belt and Road according to Global Times' report and put forward some thoughts.