About the author: Wang ToWe, Tsinghua University, contemporary art for investment and risk control program speaker. Today Art Museum in 2007 to join the strategic development centers, today as in 2008 the international contemporary art art information center network director and art editor-in-chief today.

China's rapid economic growth in many countries as a driving motor for economic growth, more importantly, China has enormous growth potential, in constant catch-up strategy, the Chinese rise is not a distant journey. However, we need to be aware of is that the rise is not an economic concept, but a political, military, social, and cultural strengths, including the concept of comprehensive national strength. The current economic crisis to some extent contribute to the achievements of China's economic power, political power, yet in the "soft power", we and most developed countries there is still a gap, particularly in the construction of modern culture, the international The output of such areas as culture or weaknesses. To continuously improve its international image, China in the context of globalization and the next downstream process also need to revert back to, the change "Chinese globalization" as "the world's Chinese."

The rise of Chinese-style process is comprehensive, it is the rich. "The rise of Chinese-style" means that the mid-21st century China's comprehensive national strength into the world, become the world's second largest economy by the year 2020 of quadrupling GDP in 2000, that is, GDP can reach 32 trillion yuan scale; "the rise of Chinese-style" means that China wants to become a model for sustainable development in large countries, China is to become people-oriented and actively seeking mutually beneficial cooperation of all countries to equal the driving force for the common development of great powers; "the rise of Chinese-style" also means that China the process of globalization is to become a civilized world power, China to participate in a profound process of globalization, we must also create a pro-active to the East-West fusion outstanding achievements of civilization as a whole to adapt to and lead the future of a new type of global civilization.

The last half century, as Vic (Giovanni Battista Vico ,1668-1744) and Herder (Johann Gottfried von Herder ,1744-1803) the history of Western philosophy circle of increasing importance, pluralistic civilization began. The so-called pluralistic civilization that is that each nation has its own unique culture; different cultures, not by a source, particularly for European culture can not measure the general guidelines for other cultures. China's modernization focused on social change and social change in two major aspects of the concept. Chinese society has undergone from the agricultural society to industrial society in parallel with the information society, a closed society to open society, the rule of man to the rule of law society, one dollar of social change to a pluralist society; with this social concept of civilization from farming constant values originated from the values of modern civilization. Focus on cultural artifacts, systems and concept of these three levels of change, the various contradictions exist side by side to shape a system with Chinese characteristics and ideas. As a result, the old power today because of the inevitable logic of capitalism have been under unprecedented attack, China's unique development model and the tremendous achievements in the international arena has aroused considerable expectations, it is a culture of "going out" excellent time.

The glorious history of Chinese civilization and its positive significance of the world is universally recognized, and modern times, the modern transformation of Chinese culture from the point the old track, and by the inevitable influence of the West. Therefore, China's modernization process, accept, study of Western civilization is an important part of which, however, Chinese civilization is based on its own based on the growth of civilization, so China's modernization does not mean Westernization; China confused in the process of globalization have , rocking, but there is no loss of self, to sever the traditional. Therefore China has its own conservation, but also Western nourishment, future cross-breeding of the East and the West, to eliminate the new civilization clash of civilizations.

For centuries, because of our weak economic base, we are existing in this nation, as well as the civilization is derived from the existence of doubt. Over the years, China from the political and ideological construction of the basic subjects are introduced from the West, which further promote such a lack of self-confidence, not the psychological characteristics of an independent culture. All this makes products of Western culture is coming down and the next, and our cultural products is riding a boat to go out. After entering the new era, China's economic construction as the central guiding principle in a sense lead to a "sandwich" limited attention until 2001, before the official start of China's cultural industries to start building, so in a very long period of time, our cultural industries with a spontaneous, not only lost the opportunity of the development of cultural industries and also led to the current cultural products of our lack of international competitiveness.

In such a culture industry after the adverse circumstances, have a history of 5,000 years of civilization of the Chinese nation to embark on a path of its own development path? First of all, we should be aware that culture is not fossils, fossils can be, with its ancient and enduring value; and culture, to have vitality for the development of the times, modern means of communication can be influential. Therefore, we can expand this range of Chinese art and enhanced the spread of the influence of Chinese art to improve the "soft power" of a shortcut - to the world the human spirit to transcend the national character of China to the future development of human thinking to win big in the mainstream art ownership to modern science and technology as the carrier of civilization spread the image of China and Chinese civilization era.

The United States in the last century through the 60's culture, political and economic means, to the definition of abstract art and contemporary art, in order to replace Europe as a stronghold of western art, and further affected the cultural development of the world the direction of more than half a century. At that time, the international community as a result of the cold war atmosphere, in order to confront the Soviet Union the role of a powerful propaganda, the United States launched a large all over the world "cultural war." From 1950 to 1979, the United States with huge amounts of money in the world to promote and create "American culture" and "American Academy of Arts." First of all, spared no expense to the abstract expressionism, and then the Pope, behavior, minimalism, conceptual, installation, video and so established as the mainstream of international contemporary art, from the center of world art from Paris to New York. Then in 1964, the Americans Rauschenberg won the Venice Biennale Award, which is "American Art" in Europe to establish, and won the landmark events of international status. Four years later, "When the time of attitude as a form of" exhibition held in Bern, Switzerland, a comprehensive picture of the "American-style" The Good Earth, Pope, installation art, this exhibition is seen as "contemporary art" start. Thus, despite the surface, there is no regional arts, but in fact the geographical impact of the arts, and cultural penetration is enormous.

At present, China's contemporary art development in the ascendant, and in recent years with the national strength and artistic works has been subject of international concern, the entire industry is also maturing in. To become a "big country arts", "music", our government funding, policy support, etc. for all to see. Moreover, with the lovers and collectors constantly improve the quality of China's increasingly fertile artistic soil. But "Art Highlights" also need a large number of outstanding artists and their works of art created by outstanding, as well as other industry trade to improve the quality of practitioners. Despite China's contemporary art is the definition of the arts in the West under the development environment, and out of their own "Chinese experience", to express their own artistic experience is China's contemporary art really come out of their "post-colonial," the shadow of the inevitable choice. This requires not only China's artists have a "following to" the cultivation, and more importantly, "open to" the determination; not only have the nation's outstanding traditional art supplies, but also the essence of a global culture of the mind; not only have the expression of individual taste, but also of all mankind for the future development of thinking and humanistic care.

2009-5-7