Opportunities and challenges with the coming of Globalization

When it comes to the globalization, different people have different attitudes towards it. Some people believe that the coming of globalization will bring us a lot of opportunities, while others argue that it will imply many challenges to us as well. There is probably some truth in both statements.            

To some people, the opportunities with the coming of globalization can be seen from the following aspects. First of all, globalization enhance our country to communicate and cooperate with other countries in the world not only in science and technology but also in economy and culture. What’s more, globalization will surely accelerate our country’s reform and development and improve the living standard of Chinese people. And most important of all, globalization enables China to get involved with the world and the world know more about China.

However, just as everything has two sides, globalization undoubtedly bring about some challenges along with opportunities. To begin with, with the coming of globalization, we have to be faced with more severe competition now than before. That’s because our country is still lagging far behind in many fields, such as in education, high technology. Some national industries will be knocked out due to inadaptability. In addition, while enjoying the richness of the civilizations, we are more likely to neglect or even lose our traditional culture. A case in point is that many young people in China are getting so wild about the western music such as Japanese comics and South Korean TV series that they lose interest in native culture, such as Peking opera.

Based on what has been discussed above, I may reasonably conclude that globalization is like a double-edged sword, which presents us challenges as well as opportunities. Therefore, we should try our efforts to make full use of the opportunities of globalization, and at the same time strive to make ourselves well prepared in every aspect to meet the challenges.    (320 )