中国对重大突发性事件的新闻传播历程经历了相当长的演变过程才达到今天的局面。在上世纪80年代以前,中国对突发性事件特别是灾难性事件都抱以回避态度,当时的新闻报道大多含糊而滞后,随着改革开放,人们的思想解放,特别是经历了2003年“非典”的洗礼,中国各方面对突发性事件的报道态度开始改变:政府开始支持、鼓励报道,媒体也全方位联动对突发性事件进行报道,2008年的地震及去年的甲型H1N1疫情爆发时,媒体和政府都予以极大的关注,并交出了令人满意的答卷。 China’s news propagation of major and unexpected incidents has gone through quite a long period of evolution before it reaches the present situation. Before the 1980s, China adopted an evasive attitude towards sudden incidents, especially catastrophic incidents. Most of the news reports at the time were vague and lagging behind. With the reform and opening up, people’s minds emancipated, especially after going through 2003, “SARS”, China’s attitudes toward unexpected incidents began to change: the government began to support and encourage reporting, and the media also conducted omni-directional linkage to report unexpected incidents. The 2008 earthquake and last year’s A H1N1 outbreak, the media and the government have given great attention, and produced a satisfactory answer sheet.