The 2002 Global Economic Leaders Forum was finally grandly opened in anticipation.

At the opening ceremony in the afternoon, Russell, a world-renowned economist, Nobel laureate in economics and a senior professor at Williams School of Business, will deliver a keynote speech on the topic of "Joining Hands in a New Era of Global Economy", and express his views on the future economy from the current globalization and Internet technological innovation.

In addition to Professor Russell's keynote speech, a large number of news media from all over the world will interview the guests and ask questions about the current economic issues that everyone is most concerned about.

Among them, even William Business School students are qualified to ask questions.

Amid a round of applause, Professor Russell, dressed in a tuxedo, came to the center of the forum and began to deliver his keynote speech.

"At present, our world is entering a period of profound change, with the continuous acceleration of the globalization process, the refined division of labor network and the global production capacity layout, to improve the well-being of all mankind has brought great benefits, we have reaped the great prosperity brought by the marine economy. At the same time, due to the widespread use of emerging forms of technology such as the Internet, which is constantly influencing the development trend of the economy and bringing new possibilities for change, the future world has shown its high degree of connectivity and super complexity......"

Professor Russell began his keynote speech.

After all, the Nobel laureate, a super authority in the field of economics, began to sketch out the future economy in his eyes for the world, and the weight of this speech may even affect the future economic direction of various countries.

Of course, what Professor Russell said is already a bit old to Li Feng's ears, after all, the changes in the next ten years or so are too great that even top international professors can't really see through it.

So in Russell's eyes, he can only look at five to eight years at most, that is, the economic model after 2010 is far beyond his ability to predict.

Of course, even if you can predict five years, it's almost a great ability.

As the speech deepened, Russell closely focused on the theme of the forum, guided the thoughts of more than 500 guests from all over the world, and prepared for the analysis and discussion in the next two days.

"Li Feng, what do you think of what Professor Russell said?" beside Li Feng, Xie Changgeng suddenly asked.

Xie Changgeng's ability is not necessarily worse than Russell's, especially in the global trade system and refined industrial layout, so when others are listening attentively, Lao Xie can still have the heart to chat.

"I think Professor Russell is of a very high level, worthy of being a professor who has won the Nobel Prize in Economics. "However, in his speech, his views on the future trend of globalization and the role of the Internet are still conservative." ”

Li Feng used the word conservative, showing his respect for the old professor, but if it is colloquial, it actually means that Professor Russell's trend judgment is not deep enough to see more profound changes in the future.

In fact, Xie Changgeng also sees it this way, during this period of time, through getting along with Li Feng, in fact, it has been of great help to Xie Changgeng's academic level, which has greatly improved Lao Xie's vision, especially after he cooperated with Li Feng for a 10,000-word long article, he really began to realize where his academic shortcomings were, and then analyzed and corrected these shortcomings.

So now, Xie Changgeng has made new progress in trend judgment and forward-looking application of science and technology, and he can even see farther than the top international bull like Russell.

"I also think Russell is a bit conservative, if you want to set the tone for the future economy, I think we have to strengthen the impact of the Internet on the global economy, and this impact is developing geometrically, just like the lotus pond effect you mentioned, maybe in less than a decade, the whole economic model will be completely different from what it is now. Xie Changgeng said.

Even if Russell's words were too conservative, his speech was a bit ahead of its time for many of those present, at a time when neither ordinary people nor the elite had yet to realize that the Internet could have such a significant impact on the lives of the entire human race in the future.

In particular, they fail to realize that with the rapid development of mobile communication technology and the gradual strengthening of mobile phone functions, the mobile Internet will appear in five or six years, and with the arrival of the mobile Internet, larger-scale communication and interconnection are about to begin, and a new economic model will also kick off.

The opening ceremony of the first day ended in a lively situation.

After returning to the five-star hotel where he stayed, after dinner, Shen Boshan began an exclusive interview with Li Feng, focusing on the Internet and e-commerce economy, and raised nearly ten questions.

Li Feng answered the questions raised by Shen Boshan one by one, and also revealed the news that Global Mall was about to enter the Chinese market and compete head-on with Baibao.com.

As the director of Baibao.com, Li Feng deliberately said this because this is a good opportunity to create public opinion, after all, Baibao.com is a local enterprise born and raised in China, and the global mall is a foreign monk.

At the same time, Li Feng also revealed in the interview that he is about to release the news of the online payment tool "Fortune Treasure", the arrival of this online payment tool will completely change the current online payment ecology, build a multi-functional, integrated new payment system, and promote the development of online payment in a more convenient and rapid direction.

Through an interview with Li Feng, Shen Boshan began to truly realize the great significance of the e-commerce industry, for this industry that has just started in China, many people actually look down on it at all, thinking that this is just a small fight, and it will not become a climate at all.

No one would have expected that in just a few years, Huaxia's e-commerce market broke through the 100 billion level, and it took a few more years to break through the trillion, and more than ten years later, online e-commerce even reshaped Huaxia's business ecology, and began to cover various fields from shopping, takeaway, travel, tourism, etc.

Shen Boshan got the first-hand interview materials, sorted them out overnight with two assistants, and it only took three hours to put the sorted interview script into Jiangzhou, which was thousands of miles away.

In a few hours, this interview with Li Feng will appear in major economic media.