The Effects of China's Membership in the WTO on the Internationalization of China's Higher Education and the Countermeasures

After analyzing the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) general obligations and disciplines and the effects on China's higher education of China's specific commitments in the trade-in-services table of commitments, the authors believe that China's membershhip in the WTO brings both advantages and disadvantages to the internationalization of China's higher education. It is the common responsibility of both the Chinese government and China's first-rate universities to counter the challenges presented by entry into the WTO and to promote the sound, swift, and orderly internationalization of China's higher education. The government should undertake the functions of macroscopic guidance and coordination, while the universities should assume the role of meeting the challenges.