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There are many idioms about competition in China, such as "Bai ge zheng liu", "Bai hua qi fang", and so on, which metaphor competition can lead to the prosperity of society and culture. To some extend, I agree that competition does be more beneficial than detrimental in various fields of society.

First, competition always brings enormous and excellent work pieces into our life. Just as a philosopher said (and I paraphrase), "No comparison, no progress", competition urges people to do better in their study or work fields. Take an interesting phenomenon happed in ancient China for example, during the period of Chun qiu and Zhan guo (about from 770 AD. to 221 AD.), many intellectuals represented various schools created enormous work pieces which have been influencing both temporal and following generations. Those artists maintained distinctive ideas and values about society and life, competed with each other and intended to attract more elites into their fields, their tremendous opuses did contribute to the prosperity of ancient China' culture. And some of those implacable cultural productions, such as Analects of Confucius, History as mirror and so on, still influence innumerable present Chinese's both in mentalities, life values and philosophy.

Second, competition leads to the flourish of economy. Common sense and some basic economic knowledge tell us that market economy is obviously superior to planned economy. China's progress in the past decades is a perfect case in the point. After liberation in 1949, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, China gradually built up a nationwide state-run economy. This mode of economy was originally intended to ensure both stable economic development and social justice which unfortunately led to economic stagnation and lasting poverty. Recognizing this fatal mistake in Pre-chairman Mao's economic policy, Deng Xiaoping, the later chairman, took a new approach--the market economy policy which admits the existence of competition among every fields of economy. Today, the bloom of China has definitely proven the validity of Deng's economic policy—market economy. In a word, rational competition assuredly leads to a better future of a nation.

Admittedly, competition also results in some bad outcomes. It will take no more than one minute for a person to cite several examples such as The Great Depression, production-dumping and so forth, to demonstrate this. However, it is the belief in a brighter side give us optimism, everything can be consider as a two-edge sword, it depends how you will make use of it. Undoubtedly, a modest and effective reference and management of government can lead to the rationalization of competition.

In sum, competition may not be automatically and completely beneficial to the society. We must take sufficient and effectual measures to ensure the competition under our control and on the road leads to prosperity. In other words, we must enable the competition serve for us to achieve a brighter future.

To me, competition is like a bridge which linked to a wider and good-scene road, in the mean time, we would have to ensure it well-founded and elaborate-framed.