The present paper aims to conduct a corpus-based discourse analysis of foreign English media coverage of the 70th Anniversary of the founding of PRC. Analytical data investigation was made into news headlines and tones, key words, collocations around the word “economic” as well as the use of “should” and “must”. The investigation found that reports from US and UK media were characterized by frequent employment of the strategy of “juxtaposing” to hijack the transmission of the positive image of China. Foreign media showed significant increase of the acknowledgement of the leadership of Chinese president. Prosperity, growth, progress and international leadership were observed as the most important positive parts of China’s international image.