This article studies how literary and journalistic elements are functioning in contemporary Chinese journalistic discourse. The study explores the relationship between these elements in Ma Fulin’sbaogaowenxue “Russia, black and white - 10 years’ experience of a Chinese in Russia”. Literary and journalistic elements were studied by the methods of literary and narrative analysis. As the result, some characteristics of Chinese journalistic discourse as a mixed genre, such as subjective and objective tone in the text, narrative system and narrative strategies were picked out.