Modern Social Science Research

Taking the reports on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) in Renmin China and People's Network (Japanese Edition) as the research objects, this paper explores the GBA image constructed by the two media through building a self-established corpus and conducting high-frequency word analysis and correspondence analysis with KH Coder. The findings are as follows: 1) The GBA reports of China's Japanese-oriented international communication media are dominated by official narratives, with the highest attention paid to Hong Kong and Macao; 2) In terms of economic image, the GBA is shaped as a "special economic zone" at the forefront of China's reform and opening-up; in social image, it is portrayed as a representative region realizing "institutional integration" under the principle of "One Country, Two Systems"; in cultural image, it is depicted as a region that "values local culture and promotes cultural integration"; in spatial image, it is constructed as a cluster of "metropolises" forming a "one-hour living circle"; 3) The two media differ in the breadth of concerns and focal points in their GBA reports. The former focuses on shaping the GBA's macro comprehensive leading image from multiple dimensions, while the latter centers on the economic field and cooperation with Japan.

International communication media; The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area image; Corpus; High-frequency word analysis; Correspondence analysis