Author(s)

Jinbao Cai ¹, Jiacheng Xu ¹, Yuexin Zheng ¹, Zhenyu Chen ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China
² School of Marxism Studies, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China

Corresponding Author

Jiacheng Xu

ABSTRACT

Against the backdrop of globalization, China, as one of the most populous countries and the second-largest economy in the world, maintains close connections with the world. China's government white papers, serving as official reports of the Chinese government, play a crucial role in promoting China’s sustainable development and integration into the global community. This article focuses on the analysis of white papers published by the Chinese State Council Information Office between 2018 and 2022. Corpus-based research methods and Fairclough's "Three-Dimensional Framework for Text and Discourse Analysis" are applied to examine the textual features, keywords, collocations of specific keywords, and concordances related to the sustainable development of China's integration into the world as presented in these white papers. The research findings indicate that China's white papers focuses on topics of cooperation. Moreover, the textual features of China's white papers reflect an official, authoritative, and objective image of China. The keywords, the collocations and randomly retrieved concordances reflect that China demonstrates a supportive and proactive attitude as well as a willingness for win-win cooperation towards the international community. These factors contribute to enhancing international understanding and recognition of China, promoting the development of partnership relations, and facilitating China's continuous integration into the world.

KEYWORDS

Critical discourse analysis; Corpus-based study; China's Integration into the World; White Papers of Chinese government; China's white papers

CITE THIS PAPER

Jinbao Cai, Jiacheng Xu, Yuexin Zheng, Zhenyu Chen, Sustainable Development of China's Integration into the World—A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis on White Papers of the Chinese Government. Social Security and Administration Management (2023) Vol. 4: 15-25. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/socsam.2023.040803.

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