I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

city, Chongqing, image of the city, Russian news agencies, number of publications, image of Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality directly under the central government in southwest China. In recent years, Chongqing has developed rapidly and attracted the attention of domestic and foreign media. This article is devoted to the review of news reports from four Russian news agencies (RIA Novosti, TASS, IA “REGNUM”, IA “Rosbalt”) relating to the metropolis of Chongqing for 15 years (2008–2022). The purpose of the study is to identify the image of the city of Chongqing in the messages of Russian news agencies. The relevance of this study is due to the fact that a positive international image of the city is crucial for the development of the city as a world famous and attractive political, economic, and cultural center. This study considers the number of publications and the content of the collected corpus. It is revealed that the number of news reports about Chongqing shows an upward trend. In the article, the trend in the number of news reports about Chongqing is divided into three phases: the initial growth phase, the fast growth phase, and the stable slow phase. In 2018, the number of news publications was the highest, with the most news being in the economic category. The paper attempts to generalize and analyze the urban image of Chongqing in the reports of Russian news agencies. It is revealed that the image of the city of Chongqing includes five aspects: economy, public life, municipal government, culture, and science.

Линь Лэй – магистрант филологических наук Института русского языка Сычуаньского университета иностранных языков, г. Чунцин, Китайская Народная Республика, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9611-9230, 772472532@qq.com