| Economic: globalization has become the great background lor the unfurling and elaboration of all theoretical thinking, and consequently il is natural for it to become the realistic basis for ethical discourse.Generally, moral discourse in the background of economic; globalization has two dimensions of discussion: ( 1 ) the theoretical framework of general ethics or universal ethics, (2) the establishment of a specific or local system oi moral values. Of course, these two dimensions are not parallel and irrelevant to each other, but set off and interwoven with each other, only they have different emphases.Over the past years, thinking about general ethics in the theoretical study of ethics seems to have been advancing in step and resonating with the pulsation of economic globalization, thus attracting great attention and appealing to have become the predominant kind of ethical discourse; while the theoretical exploration of specific systems of moral values seems to have lost its realistic pertinence, therefore becoming outdated and being viewed as a cultural element in conflict with economic globalization. This imbalance in theoretical research betrays a prejudice in our understanding of economic-globalization. But in fact, economic globalization, on the one hand, in the process of promoting the global expansion of economic activities, has developed a market without boundaries and a global production network, revealed the inapplicability of the current international economic order and whetted the appetite for the liberalization of trade and investment. On other hand, it has all the more brought into prominence the importance and feasibility of the status of independent nation states as subjects of participation in global economic activities, because economic globalizationis not achieved with complete spontaneity or blindness, but is realized in mutual commitment between nation states on the issue of economic development rather than decentralized free non-governmental economic intercourse. At the same time, economic globalization has constituted a tremendous pressure on the realization of the economic safety and benefits of each nation state, which also forces people to be more concerned about the interests of their own country and the future of their own nation. Actually, this is just the problem of opportunity and challenge that we usually stress, and also the problem of economic globalization being a "double-edged sword", negligence of either of which will result in its misconstruction.Marxism, which has all along attached importance to seeking in economic life the motive force to changes in morals, believes that the actual economic, relations tend to be the basis for the determination of the orientation of morals, and that, consequently, economic globalization is bound to bring about moral transmutation. But what is this transmutation directed at? Who performs the transmutation? And how? The raising of all these problems implies the determination of the subject of moral transmutation, in other words, not until the subject of moral transmutation has been determined can the theme of moral transmutation and the ground for its validity. The subject of moral transmutation as determined in the present paper is China which participates in economic globalization, its theme the study of the moral responses to her accession to the WTO, and the ground for its validity the survival and development of the Chinese nation.The ethical reaction to China' s accession to the WTO is the answer to and solution of the problem of how to carry out moral construction that will be adapted to the needs of her economic and social development in the new era, or how to achieve the nationalization of universal moral norms and how to innovate and transform nationalized moral resources. Currently, we urgently need to take make the following responses in moral construction:First of all, the inheritance and carrying forward of the patriotic tradition of the Chinese nation. The purpose of China' s accession to theWTO is t...
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