Opportunities and challenges faced by China in the process of world multipolarization.

The international environment facing China has many favorable conditions as well as many restrictive factors. Opportunities and challenges coexist. Generally speaking, opportunities outweigh challenges, which is beneficial to the development of China.

The favorable conditions are mainly:

(1) Maintaining peace, promoting development and seeking cooperation are the common aspirations of people all over the world, and they are also an irresistible historical trend in today's era. The trend of multipolarization in the world is further developing, and the comparison of world political forces is conducive to our efforts to strive for a peaceful international environment and a good surrounding environment for a long period of time.

(2) The trend of economic globalization is developing in depth, and the interaction and influence between China and the world economy is deepening, which is beneficial for us to make good use of the opportunities brought by economic globalization and make better use of external funds, technology, resources and global markets.

(3) The rapid progress of science and technology in the world is conducive to giving full play to the advantages of backwardness, promoting China's scientific and technological progress and innovation, and accelerating the development of high-tech industries and the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries.

The development of China also faces many constraints and severe challenges.

First, there are more unstable and uncertain factors affecting world peace and development. The factors of traditional and non-traditional security threats are intertwined, and the harm of terrorism is on the rise. Hegemonism and power politics have taken on new manifestations. The economic and technological advantages of developed countries will put pressure on China for a long time.

Secondly, the international competition around resources, market, technology and talents is becoming increasingly fierce. While countries attach more importance to developing economic and trade relations with China, the contradictions between some countries and us in the economic and trade field are also increasing. Especially in the recent period, trade protectionism is on the rise, and external pressures such as RMB exchange rate, textile export, intellectual property rights and energy resources are increasing, and trade frictions in these fields will continue to appear in the future.

Third, China's independent innovation ability is weak, and core technologies and key equipment in many fields have long relied on imports. In recent years, the increasing dependence of oil and other important resources on foreign countries has posed new challenges to China's economic security.

Fourth, the world economy is expected to continue to maintain steady growth, but in recent years, oil prices have continued to rise and uncertainties in the international economic environment have increased. The world economy may still fluctuate greatly in the future, which may have a negative impact on China's economic development.