  We consider biharmonic maps $\phi:(M,g)\rightarrow (N,h)$ from a complete
Riemannian manifold into a Riemannian manifold with non-positive sectional
curvature. Assume that $\alpha$ satisfies $1<\alpha<\infty$. If for such an
$\alpha$, $\int_M|\tau(\phi)|^{\alpha}dv_g<\infty$ and
$\int_M|d\phi|^2dv_g<\infty,$ where $\tau(\phi)$ is the tension field of
$\phi$, then we show that $\phi$ is harmonic. For a biharmonic submanifold, we
obtain that the above assumption $\int_M|d\phi|^2dv_g<\infty$ is not necessary.
These results give affirmative partial answers to the global version of
generalized Chen's conjecture.
