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As China has joined WTO, it will bring about some positive and negative effects on various riel& including economy, agriculture, industry, banking, etc. Education should be regarded as one of these fields, which will be influenced likewise. In my opinion, the influence on Ph. D programs in China will be as follows:
There will be, I think, three positive effects. First, Ph. D programs in China will be more open and there will be more joint programs, which will be beneficial to Ph. D candidates because they will be easily exposed to what is happening in foreign countries. Second, there will be competition among Ph. D programs. That means, the best students will be able to participate in the excellent programs. The last one is that something new will be brought into our programs, which will make our programs closer to the frontiers in various research projects.
There is only one negative effect as far as I am concerned now. If some foreign programs enter China powerfully, it will cause brain drawn. Some top talents whom the country needs, will go abroad very easily and will not return.
Anyhow, I believe that China's entry into WTO will be beneficial to Ph. D education in China.