Comparing Sentiment between the Chinese and English Texts of the Report of the 20th CPC National Congress

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is an important political document in China. Based on the Chinese and English corpora of the report, the study conducted the lexicon-based sentiment analysis and revealed significantly higher proportion and larger frequency of positive sentiment words in both corpora, reflecting a clear positive tendency. Also, significantly larger proportion of positive sentiment words were distributed more frequently and exhibited significantly greater intensity in the Chinese corpus. Conversely, the distribution of the negative sentiment words was the opposite with no significant differences. but their intensity was significantly higher in the Chinese corpus. The study offers an evidence-based insight into the CPC's belief and attitude in building Chinese modernization on the new journey in the new era.