The ten predictions once made by Mr. Zeng Shiqiang:
1. In the next five years, the world is likely to face major public health challenges (proposed in 2015).
2. In the next 30 years, global scientific and technological development may bring major challenges and crises, which require international cooperation to solve (proposed in 2010).
3. Conflicts in the 21st century will appear more as competition between cultures and ideologies than as traditional military wars (proposed in 2010).
4. The United States may face various challenges and changes, but its future direction is diverse and uncertain (proposed in 2010).
5. From 2009 onwards, traditional culture and philosophy, including the I Ching, will regain global attention (proposed in 2010).
6. In the next few decades, with the development of science and technology and the strengthening of global cooperation, mankind is expected to enter a relatively safe and peaceful period (proposed in 1990).
7. China will continue to play an important role in the global economy and is likely to achieve remarkable achievements in some fields (proposed in 1990, predicting that China will become the world's second largest economy by 2004).
8. In the next few decades, China has the potential to play an even more important role on the global stage (proposed in 2005, predicted to 2044).
9. China’s science and technology and innovation capabilities will continue to increase and have an important impact on global science and technology development (proposed in 1990, predicted to 2054).
10. Human society will gradually develop in the direction of more harmonious symbiosis, and this trend will become increasingly significant in the next few decades (proposed in 2010, predicted to 2069).
