This nation will lead the world, says US author

Best-selling American author John Naisbitt is full of confidence in China's future and believes that the nation will one day lead the world in Nobel Prizes, just as it did in Olympic gold medals at Beijing last year.

Regarded as the world's leading futurist, Naisbitt shed light on his upcoming book Megatrends China during a recent visit to Beijing.

He gained an extensive following in China back in the 1980s with Megatrends, which sold 14 million copies around the world and topped the New York Times best-seller list for the best part of two years. Back then, I was a postgraduate student at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and read his book word by word. Although I didn't fully understand it, I found it very encouraging for China in the early years of its opening-up and reform.