Abstract: Cultural power as a "soft power" is becoming a major component of a country’s comprehensive(national) power and a measure of its global competitiveness.Cultural competition is viewed today from the higher(perspective) of national strategy.Chinese music is an important part of Chinese culture and China’s institutions of higher musical education,as the bases for passing on Chinese musical traditions and blazing new trails,have the(unsinkable) and enormous responsibility to make Chinese music internationally competitive.Problems of the(misplacement) of the "mother tongue" and guiding values that exist in China’s higher musical education have,(however),made it difficult for the institutions to carry out the mission of enhancing the global competitiveness of(Chinese) music.For the Chinese music to go global in keeping with China’s peaceful rise,the basic strategies are to "seek harmony while keeping differences" in competition,and to persist in grasping the initiative and blazing new trails through integration in East-West musical culture exchange.