A Comparative Study of Chinese Media Coverage of One-Child Parents’ Old-Age Care Issues

——The Paper and Xinhua News Agency as Examples

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10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_102How to use a DOI?

Keywords

one-child; old-age care; media

Abstract

Based on the current situation and sorts of plights faced by one-children under the newly revised “family planning” policy, this paper reads, analyzes, and compares the past studies on “the problem of one-child parents’ old-age care” in The Paper (澎湃新闻in Chinese)and Xinhua News Agency (abbr. Xinhua in this paper, 新华社in Chinese), and analyzes the differences and commonalities of the reports on the two platforms in terms of their coverage trends, perspectives, and topics. The Paper tends to raise the issue and deepen its investigation on this issue, explore the issue from the perspective of one-child, and highlight the issue of certain social industries; while Xinhua News Agency tends to raise the issue and find corresponding solutions, explore the issue from the perspective of the elderly group, and emphasize the difficulties faced by the elderly. In addition, both platforms share the commonality that they do not have clear conclusions on some issues and prefer to express their views in a comprehensive manner. These differences may be due to the different positioning of the two media outlets, which leads to different attitudes conveyed to the society; the commonalities may be due to the fact that the issue of “one-child parents’ old-age care” is very special in China, which makes it impossible to lead the issue in a certain direction conclusively, and needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis.

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AU  - Zhaoheng Yang
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/03/28
TI  - A Comparative Study of Chinese Media Coverage of One-Child Parents’ Old-Age Care Issues
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development (ICOSSED 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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