Based on the perspective of visual symbols，this paper investigates the visual representation strategy and the core visual symbols' symbolic meaning of Chinese and Western media reports on China's climate change issues. It argues that there are differences between Chinese and Western media reports on China's climate change issues，including the meaning framework setting of visual frames，the presentation of visual representations，and the use of symbolic visual symbols，which results in the audiences' imbalance in the visual perception of China's climate change issues.The foreign reports of China's climate change issues should focus on the optimization of the picture theme framework and tell the Chinese story of climate governance well with visual symbols.