many American companies such as the Ford began to adopt a teamwork management from their rivals,? the essence of which, lay at the very core of Eastern culture. ?Take the Chinese acupuncture as another example: This traditional treatment of diseases is finally? finding its way to the West and hence the underlying notion that illness is resulted from the imbalance between yin and yang within the body--an idea which would strike any Westerner as? incredible in the past! ?Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in a great epoch when the global integration of economy and the? information revolution have brought cultures of the world closer than ever before. We live in a particular era when countries, East and West, find themselves in need of readjusting their traditional? values. We live, at the same time, at a critical juncture of our evolution because such problems as? ethnic conflicts and regional unrest are increasingly posing a threat to the peace and happiness of the? whole human rac ……………………