2023年是“一带一路”倡议提出十周年。十年来，共建“一带一路”已经成为深受欢迎的国际公共产品和国际合作平台，也是讲好中国故事、传播好中国声音的重要平台。作为国家英文日报，《中国日报》是中国走向世界、世界了解中国，塑造与传播国家形象的重要窗口，其创新的中国美学新闻插画突破传统文字报道的“硬传播”模式，成为《中国日报》最具辨识度的品牌，成为讲述中国故事、实现跨文化传播的有效载体。
本文以概念隐喻理论和多模态隐喻理论为理论背景，关注《中国日报》国际版（http://www.chinadailyglobal.com/）“一带一路”新闻报道与插画中的多模态隐喻。研究以30篇“一带一路”相关新闻报道及其新闻插画作为研究对象，探究《中国日报》中的多模态隐喻类型，进而揭示《中国日报》所建构的国家形象。研究主要发现如下：第一，结构隐喻、本体隐喻和方位隐喻均有体现，共呈现出7种表现形式，其中结构隐喻出现的频率最高，本体隐喻其次，而方位隐喻占比最小；第二，《中国日报》新闻插画中主要塑造了一个向往和平、拥抱合作并主动用自身发展来带动各个国家共同发展的中国国家形象。
通过多模态隐喻分析，本研究有助于我们了解《中国日报》中塑造的国家形象，并在未来的外宣报道中更好、更有效地塑造、传播和展示一个真实、立体、全面的中国。

The year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. Over the past ten years, the Belt and Road Initiative has been welcomed by the world both as a public good and a cooperation platform, as well as an important platform to tell China’s stories and make China’s voice heard. As the nation’s leading English-language newspaper, China Daily serves a vital role in telling the world about China, helping the world understand China and constructing China’s national image. Its news illustrations with Chinese aesthetic characteristics have become an effective tool to tell China’s stories and achieve cross-cultural communication.
Based on conceptual metaphor theory and multimodal metaphor theory, this study focuses on the multimodal metaphors in 30 news illustrations of the Belt and Road in China Daily’s global edition (http://www.chinadailyglobal.com/) from 2017 to 2022, to explore the types of multimodal metaphors used and thus reveal the national image constructed by China Daily. The major findings of this study are as follows. Firstly, structural metaphors, ontological metaphors and orientation metaphors are all employed in China Daily including 7 forms in total, with structural metaphors used most frequently, followed by ontological metaphors, and orientational metaphors appearing only a few times. Secondly, the news illustrations in China Daily mainly construct China’s national image as a country that aspires to peace, embraces cooperation and takes the initiative to realize the common development of each country involved in the Belt and Road Initiative.
Through multimodal metaphor analysis, this study contributes to the understanding of China’s national image constructed in China Daily, and provides insights into a better and more effective way to construct and present a true, multi-dimensional and panoramic view of China.