新时代中国国家形象塑造的现实挑战、理论建构与实践路径
Real-world Challenges, Theoretical Construction, and Practical Pathways for Shaping China’s National Image in the New Era
在百年未有之大变局背景下,国家形象作为国家软实力的重要组成部分,在大国博弈与竞争中发挥着越来越重要的作用。在全球化和信息化时代,中国国家形象建设挑战与机遇并存。面对国家形象建构过程中东方定位与西方定位的矛盾、国家形象传播过程中事实内容与媒体表述的偏离、国家形象认知过程中自我塑造与他者认知的错位、国家形象重塑过程中硬性叙事与柔性叙事的失衡等问题,新时代中国国家形象塑造要始终坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导,坚定文化自信,发挥社会主义核心价值观引领优势;创新传播理念,加强中国特色对外话语体系建设;明晰受众定位,实施精准化叙事策略;完善传播矩阵,打造多元主体协同叙事机制,不断提升国际传播能力,讲好中国故事,传播好中国声音,为中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的实现营造有利的国际舆论环境。
Amid the once-in-a-century transformation, national image— a vital part of a nation’s soft power—plays an increasingly significant role in major-country rivalry and competition. By analyzing the practical challenges arising in the development of China’s national image in the new era, this paper systematically expounds on the theoretical progress regarding national image building in the new era as proposed by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core. Building on this foundation,it delves into pragmatical approaches for image shaping,and to a certain extent, provides theoretical references and practical insights to enhance China’s capacity for international communication.This paper identifies four major dilemmas confronting China’s national image building. First, the positioning contradiction between the East and the West. Due to the differences of historical background,social systems,and ideologies,there has always been a gap between China’s self-image and the external image constructed by Western countries. Second,the divergence between objective facts and media representation in international communication. Driven by the underlying mindset of containing and suppressing China, Western nations led by the United States, which dominate in the international discourse system,consistently adopt biased and non-neutral narratives when involving core China-related issues. Third,the cognitive mismatch between self-image and external perception. Cross-cultural disparities fuel obstacles to national identity recognition,while semantic loss in language conversion prevents overseas audiences from accurately understanding China. Fourth,the imbalance between hard and soft narratives in the process of national image reshaping. China’s international communication has long relied on political statements,with insufficient accessible and popular soft narratives.At the theoretical level,this paper elaborates on the theoretical framework for shaping China’s national image in the new era from three dimensions, strategic goals,value orientation,and methodological guidance. Based on China’s national conditions, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed fostering a national image as a responsible,socialist nation in the east with a profound civilization, which defines the strategic goals of national image building, he advocated interactive communication to present a credible,likable,and respectable China to the wider world,thereby clarifying the value pursuit of national image building.Moreover,he emphasized following the laws of communication to present a genuine, multidimensional,and comprehensive image of China, laying out the scientific methodological guidelines for national image building practice.
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