Since modern times, the development of a country is no longer just its internal affairs. All countries aspire to development, which inevitably brings about changes in power. How to survive in this changing state has become an eternal topic. By reviewing the development history of the Netherlands, Germany and Britain since modern times and summarizing their success and failure, we can find some common experiences in the development of big countries: to solve the problem of national construction in the process of modernization; to build a social structure conducive to the coordinated development of modern politics, economy and culture; and so on. On this basis, we can have a clear understanding of the latest development of great powers. At present, Sino-US relations are in a special process of shaping each other. China has to face and solve many problems, but should always put its own things in the first place: it should firmly be the defender of the existing international order and the maker of the new globalization rules; it should prove its system rationality and superiority to the world; it should solve the hidden social danger seriously, etc.