In 2030, the world will become a Datong world supporting a population of billions of peopleThe world will experience historically great progress which means the global economy will enter a golden age; science & technology innovation becomes active, globalization will have been deepened and increasing urbanization will transform societiesThe global economic development pattern and incumbent global order are under great transformationThere will be great reversal in the modern interpretation of the positions between the North and South, as the South surpasses the NorthThe distribution of some of the main development indicators in Southern and Northern countries, as a share of world total, will invert from 30/70 to 70/30 and there will be convergences between the South and North, including education convergence, health convergence, information convergence and income convergence