National image is a strategic capital of a country.Relying on social network analysis approach,the study analyzes the content of 11,636 reports in English that are collected from foreign and domestic media listed in ABI database.This study discovers and compares the exposure frequency in the media in English as well as the full text news among the five Olympic holding cities.More particular,this study not only discovers and compares the subjects of news on 2008 Beijing Olympic Game in Foreign media and those in Domestic media in English,but also analyzes the dynamic yearly changes of the connectivity among the subjects of reports during the period of 2001-2006.Our results demonstrate the presence of 592 subjects related to Beijing Olympics in the foreign media.Further,such subjects are concentrated on the political,economic,environmental aspects of a country.Based on the analytic results,the paper proposes constructive suggestions on how to promote the national image through global media events.