Chinese culture "going global" is an inevitable requirement for China's economic and social develop-ment. As an important part of Chinese traditional culture,the dissemination of Confucian thought is just the spread of Chinese culture. Therefore,the spread of Chinese Confucian thought abroad is also the key to Chinese culture "going global". However,there are some cultural hinders between China and the West due to the differences in cultures. On the basis of summarizing Confucius and Socrates' thoughts,this paper analyzes their essence of thoughts by contrast, which represent the eastern and Western cultures respectively. From the perspective of cross - cultural communication, the paper adopts the methods of multiculturalism,criticism and down - to - earth attitudes to deal with Chinese and Western cultures in order to make Chinese go global and share China's wisdom with the world.