【正文】 ideal of munity, hierarchy, paternalism and nonlitigious nature of society, we may even think our traditional values are challenged and even , are we really losing our values? Ladies and gentlemen, we must remember, the traffic of globalization is , films from Hollywood, soccer from the United Kingdom and restaurants from America, do have an impact on our , if we see globalization in China a synonymous term with western economic cultural hegemony, we are underestimating the impact of not only globalization but also our a look at , it is the desire and dream of every single Chinese to speak fluent English, including every single one of us , have you ever wondered how many nonChinese are learning Chinese? Let me tell you, by the end of 2002, nearly 30 million people from 85 countries and regions were learning standard Chinese, who knows about the number of people learning regional dialects such as Shanghainese and these two years, I am sure none of us here will be surprised that the number is a look at Feng Shui, within seconds Google brings you 1,270,000 websites about Feng Shui, not in Chinese, not from all over the world, but in English, just within the United I guess some of you still remember, when the previous American president, Bill Clinton, first became actually had the furniture of his office rearranged according to feng shui a look at traditional Chinese years ago, in 2001, there were already more than 120 000 traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, researchers and related business trading panies in Europe, just holistic approach of taking care of a person39。an, hundreds of centuryold Chinesestyle houses are being demolished to make room for skyscrapers, shopping malls and eightlane these examples, we see the disharmony brought about by it is not globalization that is to long as we approach globalization with harmony in mind, its benefit will outweigh its my hometown, Hangzhou, for example, thanks to the strenuous efforts made by the municipal government in achieving ecodevelopment, various water birds have returned to the West Lake, calling it home again after years of migration the lake bank, we see skateboarders and trick cyclists showing off together with people flying kites and kicking shuttlecocks on the plaza they pose a picture quite distinct from traditional Chinese paintings, this picture conveys a modern sense of harmony in this era of and gentlemen, to conclude, I would like to quote from British philosopher Bertrand contrasting Chinese and Western civilizations, he observed: “The distinctive merit of western civilization is the scientific method。an, Nanjing and many other cities, and they built the Great Wall, which snakes through half of our built walls to ward off enemies and evil tradition has been maintained to this day as we still have many parks and schools walled off from the grew up at the foot of the city walls, and I39。s me give you an year ago, when I was working on a term paper, I needed a book on business law and found a copy in the law school , the librarian turned down my request with a cold shoulder, saying, “You can39。1993年考取南京外國語學(xué)校，其間獲全國中學(xué)生英語能力競賽和中澳國際英語能力競賽高中組特等獎(jiǎng)。Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities for China39。s words, “Only connect!” With the IT revolution taking place, traditional boundaries of human society fall culture, politics, society and merce are being sloshed into a large melting pot of this interlinked world, there are no outsiders, for a disturbance in one place is likely to impact other parts of the have begun to realize that a world divided cannot is now actively integrating into the recent entry to the WTO is a good decades, we have taken pride in being selfreliant, but now we realize the importance of participating in and contributing to a broader economic the precarious role in the world arena to our present WTO membership, we have e a long what does the way ahead look like? In some parts of the world people are demonstrating against they justified then, in criticizing the globalizing world? Instead of narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, they say, globalization enables developed nations to swallow the developing nations39。Good afternoon, ladies and title of my speech today is “Crossing the Sea”.An English poet by the name of Rudyard Kipling once wrote in this poem “We and They” :All the people like us are Weand everyone else is TheyWe live over the seaWhile They live over the wayWe eat pork and beef with cow hornhandled knivesThey who gobble their rice off a leafAre horrified out of their these lines first caught my eyes, I was shockedhow could two people remain so isolated and ignorant of each other in the past? Today39。s and even rather elderly people dressed in Apple , these are only some expressions of the cultural changes taking place in our society is really going on is a subtle but significant restructuring of the nation39。s China, he would have been horrified to see young lovers kissing each other in public places in an unreserved expression of their is therefore evident that we as descendants of an ancient Eastern civilization are already living under strong influence of the Western it is not only in China that we find the incorporation of the two the United States as an example: During the 1980s, in face of the overwhelming petition from Japan, many American panies such as the Ford began to adopt a teamwork management from their rivals, the essence of which, lay at the very core of Eastern the Chinese acupuncture as another example: This traditional treatment of diseases is finally finding its way to the West and hence the underlying notion that illness is resulted from the imbalance between yin and yang within the bodyan idea which would strike any Westerner as incredible in the past!Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in a great epoch when the global integration of economy and the information revolution have brought cultures of the world closer than ev