Chapter 25 12. Top 10 surveys: The world sees China

In the thirty years since the reform and opening up, the changes that have taken place in China are enough to shock everyone. From our own point of view, our material life and spiritual life have all undergone tremendous changes.From the perspective of the world, China has gradually transformed from a distant oriental country, a representative of mystery and backwardness in movies, an isolated island outside the world, into an important production base in the global industrial division of labor, and a country initially showing modernization. country of faces. Topic introduction: China in the eyes of the world

Among the many famous quotes of Matsushita Group President Konosuke Matsushita, there is one that says this. "If you can't win in China, you will lose in the whole world!" Strictly speaking, this cannot be regarded as a compliment to China, and we should even regard this sentence as a negative mockery. As the leader of a business empire, when he said this, he only considered one factor - how to occupy China with his own products. In fact, for the past 10 years, we have been in a state of being invaded in a different way. Unlike the long-lasting aggression more than a hundred years ago, we did not encounter breech-loading guns and strong ship guns again, but the final result was the same—real money was lost.

However, the reason why we did not have any sense of shame of being violated is that this time the long-closed door of the country was opened by ourselves. Although the difference is subtle, its meaning is not the same.The opening of the country this time means a long-term brewing. In the thirty years since the reform and opening up, the changes that have taken place in China are enough to shock everyone. From our own point of view, our material life and spiritual life have all undergone tremendous changes.From the perspective of the world, China has gradually transformed from a distant oriental country, a representative of mystery and backwardness in movies, an isolated island outside the world, into an important production base in the global industrial division of labor, and a country initially showing modernization. country of faces.

From ignorance in the past to world-renowned today, China's influence in the world is increasing exponentially at a speed of change. Even in some African countries, we are taking the form of great powers such as Britain or France in the past. appearance. The past thirty years have been so glorious, especially for a nation like China that has been silent for more than a hundred years, this glory has a special meaning-it carries the glory and dreams of a nation. Although in the eyes of many people, China is facing countless difficulties and troubles at this stage, and many people hope to use this to obliterate China's achievements in the past 30 years, but for us, this denial Not the most important thing, the important thing is that we are living through a completely different era and experiencing feelings that we have never had before.

As the British thinker Russell said: "When it comes to the past, every age admits it as a fact. When it comes to the present, every age denies it as a fact." As far as the inquiry process we have experienced before is concerned, just It is between the past and the present, regardless of whether it is recognized by the times, what happened has already happened, what should happen will happen again, and all conclusions need to be given by the latecomers themselves. There is no precedent for reform, so we are under the contradictory eyes of the whole world, and at the same time, we are also contradictory for our own situation-both for the immediate difficulties and looking forward to the future.

In fact, when China joined the WTO, it meant a brand new beginning for China.Like a gurgling stream, the surge of Chinese companies going abroad eventually formed a torrent that went straight to the sea and jumped into the international market. After that, we will soon see that in dozens of industries in China, contradictions and expectations are advancing alternately. This situation of coexistence of game and integration not only occurs in the present, but also exists in the next ten years. For any As far as an enterprise is concerned, no matter how it will change, all we need to do is to solve one contradiction after another, and continue our expectations while the eyes of the world are focused.