In the critical period of the national rejuvenation strategy within the wider context of the once-in-a-century changes taking place in the world, China should not only further integrate itself into the international arena, but also contribute Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global governance. Such practical needs promote the academic community to tell Chinese stories well and form an academic discourse system with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style. Constructing academic discourse system with Chinese characteristics is an urgent need to tell Chinese stories well, build Chinese independent knowledge system, enhance Chinese cultural confidence and enhance China’s international academic discourse power. As an important platform for publishing academic research results, academic journals are important subjects to promote the construction of academic discourse system with Chinese characteristics. However, the current research has not paid enough attention to the important role of academic journals and academic communities in constructing the academic discourse system with Chinese characteristics. Academic journals, through the integrated development with academic communities, can promote the construction of subject groups and finally realize the construction of academic discourse system with Chinese characteristics. Therefore, in the critical period of accelerating the construction of academic discourse system with Chinese characteristics, promoting the integrated development of academic journals and academic communities has become an important issue that cannot be ignored. Academic journals and academic communities have inherent coupling, that is, academic journals need to integrate into academic communities, and academic communities cannot be separated from academic journals platform. The integrated development of academic journals and academic communities has practical feasibility, which shows that academic journals can effectively promote the formation and development of academic communities, and academic communities can enhance the influence of academic journals. The heterogeneity of academic journals, the imbalanced distribution of academic resources, the excessive intervention of administrative power in academic business, and the difference of research interests of academic communities are the important factors that affect the integrated development. Therefore, to promote the integrated development of academic journals and academic communities, the relationship between different organizations should be integrated at the demand level to enhance the effective demand of subject groups. At the supply level, an academic platform based on the demand of academic discourse system with Chinese characteristics should be constructed. At the institutional level, the peer review system and the academic resources distribution system should be improved. At the technical level, the application of big data should be taken as the core means to improve the synergy between organizations.